Robbins, David KEITH ALEXANDER The artist in retrospect
Highly Collectible-This is a Collector's Special Edition limited to 100 Copies of which this is number 9.
Robbins, David KEITH ALEXANDER The artist in retrospect
Published: Jonathan Ball,
Condition: Near Fine. Quarter leather binding with gilt lettering on spine. Tips of book in leather with green marbled boards. Slipcase in Very Good condition in green fabric boards, leather tongues and green marble sides.
Zimbabwean born, Keith Alexander is well known for his desert art, inspired by the Namib Desert and his preoccupation with ruins overrun by rank growing vegetation. He died at the age 52 in 1988. He had an international reputation as South Africa's foremost realist and surrealist painter.
Keith Alexander is an artist known to many in Southern Africa, in America and in Europe. A quiet, diffident and unassuming man, he created a substantial number of exquisite paintings, with rare exceptions African-themed. His untimely death at 52 robbed the world of great art. Keith Alexander was a prolific painter, and all his work was interesting, special and different. He used a rare technique of combining clear, almost photographic, realism with surreal images or effects. Sometimes he played tricks with perspective, more often he introduced features which are bizarrely out of place in his works and yet could belong. His major theme, inspired by what he saw in the Namib, was the impermanence of man's work in the face of a relentless nature, and this theme is evident in many of his paintings. Those lucky enough to have visited the Namib desert will appreciate his astonishing skill in capturing light, heat and atmosphere.
