Maggie Maria Magdalena Laubser (1886 - 1973) Africa Artist Oil "House Near Lake"

Maggie Maria Magdalena Laubser (1886 - 1973)

Maggie Maria Magdalena Laubser was active/lived in South Africa, Europe. Maggie Laubser is known for expressionist, naive-sophisticated still life, portrait and landscape painting.


Signed Lower Left
Oil on Board
Painting Size: 12" x 16".

Frame Size: 20" x 24".
Dated 1920-1949

CONDITION
Good condition, no visible damages

Biography

Maggie remained undeterred in her approach, and persevered with her unique expressionist style and philosophy.
She spent the next few years on the farm Oortmanspost, near Klipheuwel in the Malmesbury district, painting life around her - still life studies with flowers, portraits of the farm labourers and their children, cottages with ducks and farmyard scenes. Her
Swartland landscapes featured cattle, geese, pigs and figures with the occasional cottage against the backdrop of typical Boland fields and mountains. She also explored the coastal areas of the Cape, visiting and painting scenes from the fishing villages at
Langebaan, Hermanus, Gansbaai, and Waenhuiskrans during 1928 to 1932. Though Maggie rarely travelled again, she took working trips to the Transvaal, the Free State and Natal from the mid-thirties, and produced portraits of Indian and African women as well
as some landscapes. Although some of her strongest works were portraits, she preferred to paint from memory without the subject in view, and her subject matter continued to be drawn from the pastoral scenes of her childhood. In Art & Artists of South Africa,
Esme Berman describes Maggie Laubser's work when she was nearly 60 years of age and a well established and respected artist, very aptly: "By the mid-40's Maggie Laubser had staked out her artistic territory: a world of simple images, in which the harmony of
her unsophisticated and untroubled youth survived. She no longer ventured beyond this territory. The favourite themes and scenes are tackled time and again; but, with repetition, the integration of shapes becomes less forceful, smooth curves replace the animated
irregularity of outline, and the previously vibrant colours dissolve into sweetened pastel tints." Maggie Laubser's career history serves as a testimony to her integrity as an artist - in her adherence to her personal vision and beliefs, she triumphed over
the ridicule, hardship and hurt of years of rejection. She continued to paint until her death at her home 'Altyd Lig' in the Strand in 1973.

PROVENANCE
Private Collection from New York

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