Victor Ivanoff (1909-1997). Original Cartoon Ink Drawing. Boer Woman and Child with Guiding Star.

Beautifully drawn by the famous cartoonist for Die Vaderland.

Original cartoon 35 x 27 cm.

Mount is 51 x 40 cm.

Victor Archipovich Ivanoff (1909-1997) was a serious professional artist, not just  a cartoonist. He aspired to a high level of art and often painted in oils, taking lessons from Pierneef in this regard. 

He also studied painting in 1920 at the South Slavia Cossack Cadet School under N. Karpoff, architecture from 1926 to 1929 in Yugoslavia, and then painting again in Rome under Alessio Isupoff in 1951 and in 1957 to 1959 at various art schools in Paris, Munich and Vienna.

He was in fact born in Vilna Russia but his family had to leave Russia soon after the Revolution as his father was an anti-communist cossack general.

After emigrating to South Africa he achieved national fame as the cartoonist for Die Vaderland, with a very distinctive and pleasing style.

This subject is particularly emotional and evocative. The Boer woman and child are looking to a guiding star. Perhaps they are victims of the Boer War. The star has a shape of a cross. The cartoon was drawn in 1968. Ivanoff felt a strong affinity with the Afrikaners and actually thought they were a lot like Russians in some ways, such as their liking for wide-open spaces. As a cartoonist he  became an activist for the Afrikaner cause.

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