Lot #6: SHEILA JARZIN (SOUTH AFRICAN, b.1937) TABLE MOUNTAIN, CAPE TOWN OIL ON HARDBOARD

SHEILA JARZIN (SOUTH AFRICAN, b.1937) TABLE MOUNTAIN, CAPE TOWN South African visual artist and abstract painter Sheila Jarzin Levinson is no exception. The iconic artist has painted fearlessly, consistently for over five decades, with skill and passion. Jarzin Levinson’s new body of work reveals mastery, a lifetime of art making, and she is aptly described as ‘tracing the curves of the human spirit’. Born in 1937 Levinson works intuitively and belongs to a wider South African tradition of painters engaged in abstraction as emotional language, embodied praxis, spiritual reflection and transformational states. Which places her professionally and conceptually, in proximity to broader abstraction traditions in South Africa associated with artists such as Bill Ainslie; Nel Erasmus; Douglas Portway and other, similar contemporary expressive abstraction movements. Globally Levinson’s work resonates with the work of artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe. With a distinctive artistic language and vibrant colour palette she produces a world in which abstraction functions not only as formal reduction but as a critical tool for harnessing and lyrically expressing themes of spirituality, transcendence, embodied love, and materiality beyond the canvas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vpLpRPOjmYRQ OIL ON HARDBOARD; SIGNED AND DATED '80 LOWER LEFT; TITLED (sic) VERSO 24 x 36 x 1.5 in — 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1.5 in — 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Pickup category timeslot {A}