Cecil Higgs, Close Up: A Biography By D R Bertram

Cecil Higgs, Close Up: A Biography By D R Bertram

Hardcover

ISBN 1874959064

Publisher: William Waterman Publications Ltd 1994

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover..

Cecil Higgs: Close-up is a revealing and intimate biography of one of South Africa's most respected painters. It is a warm and human, yet at the same time candid, portrait of Cecil Higgs, the private person and the public painter.

Cecil Higgs: Close Up is a revealing and intimate biography of one of South Africas most respected painters. It is a warm and human, yet at the same time candid, portrait of Cecil Higgs, the private person and the public painter.

Based on hitherto unpublished sources her extant diaries, notebooks and inimitable drafts to close friends and contemporary fellow artists, and their letters to her this unique archival material is a virtual kaleidoscope of South African history over the past hundred years.

Cecil Higgs spent her childhood on a post-Boer War Free State farm and her penultimate school years in Grahamstown, then London and Paris in the 1920s as an art student. She returned home in 1933 and in the five ensuing decades established herself as one of our countrys leading painters. A modest and unassuming person, she had an indomitable will and courage, and a passion for natures elements that is reflected vibrantly in her work.

This is a beautiful example of the artists work, and a pleasure for the eye and art lover. It is also scarce, and a valuable book on one of South Africas less well known gems.