John Marsden DRONSFIELD (1900-1951)
“African Improvisations”, pre-1951 - stone litho 34/100, unsigned - print size 30x25.5 cm, sheet size 55.5x38 cm
(one from the Series of African Improvisations)
from the Michaelis Portfolio – 20 SA artists – published in 1951-1953 by Michaelis Art School, Cape Town, as a fundraising project
Collection:
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein - donated May 2009
Provenance:
FFH Basel 2008
HLH Johannesburg
Gallery 101, Johannesburg
Description:
Michaelis Portfolio (13/100) from a Sotheby's Johannesburg catalogue:
TWENTY PRINTS: Complete portfolio, handprinted by the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, MCMLI-MCMLIII;
artists are Boonzaier, Dronsfield, Esmonde-White, Harries, Hendriks, Higgs, Hillhouse, Krenz, Krige, Lipschitz, Michaelis, Pierneef, Preller, Prowse, Shephard, Stern and Welz
copy No. 13 of a limited edition of 100 woodcuts, linocuts, etchings or lithographs, each print signed by the artist (except for the Dronsfield) and numbered in pencil, with title-page and information sheets, in original red cloth portfolio, sheet size 55,5 by 38cm
Further information on John Dronsfield can be found in:
ARTLOOK, Johannesburg - Vol. I No. II, December 1966, p. 10