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1 st Edition, 1990, hardcover with dust jacket, 261 pages (complete) As new.
. A comprehensive overview of the life and works of the remarkable Pierneef (who was able, almost uniquely, captured the light of veld). . The pages are clean, clear; the coloured plates are fresh and elegant and convey the elysian spirit of Pierneef's paintings most affectingly.
.Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef as a South African landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters. His distinctive style is widely recognized and his work was greatly influenced by the South African landscape.
Most of his landscapes were of the South African highveld which provided a lifelong source of inspiration for him. Pierneef's style was to reduce and simplify the landscape to geometric structures, using flat planes, lines and colour to present the harmony and order in nature. This resulted in formalised, ordered and often-monumental view of the South African landscape, uninhabited and with dramatic light and colour..
