Still Life: Bloemstuk marks the inaugural project of Le Clus Art Advisory’s collaboration with David Krut Workshop, for whom Le Clus now acts as agent in Cape Town. The project continues a thread first set out in David Krut Projects’ earlier exhibition, Still Life: A Contemporary Arrangement. Bloemstuk — Afrikaans, from the Dutch — is the historical name for the flower piece, a genre with deep roots in the seventeenth-century Low Countries and a long visual lineage at the Cape.
For this online viewing room, Jean le Clus-Theron has drawn together a focused selection from across David Krut’s artists and editions, works chosen specifically to introduce to her Cape Town network. The presentation is a starting point: the first of an ongoing programme bringing David Krut’s work to the city.
Each work returns to one familiar and enduring motif, the vase with flowers, yet each artist approaches the subject differently, revealing the range and flexibility of the still life tradition. They are further connected through the medium of printmaking, from etching, monoprint, woodcut to photogravure, with each process lending its own texture, atmosphere, and character to the image.
This is intended as a digital-first introduction to both the collaboration and the works themselves. For those based in Cape Town who would like to view selected pieces in person, this can be arranged on request.
For enquiries or to arrange a viewing, please contact Jean le Clus-Theron at jean@leclus.com.
Untitled (Still Life), 2025
Step-bite aquatint etching with drypoint
28.8 x 28.5 cm
R 8 400.00 VAT Incl. Framed
Still Life with Portrait, 2024
Mixed Media (Relief Monotype Soft ground hand painting with collage)
76.5 x 112 cm
R 40 250.00 VAT Incl. Unframed
Peter Cohen is a Johannesburg-based architect and artist with a meticulous examination of the interplay between interior and exterior spaces and how this shifts our understanding of reality. Through a methodical layering process, he constructs environments that challenge conventional understandings of spatial dynamics and the nature of human perception.
His imagery manipulates visual elements to prompt viewers to investigate the reliability of memory and its role in shaping individual and collective experiences. The artist achieves this through the act of dissolution – creating layered daydreams out of commonplace scenery where reality loses its definition, inside and outside become interchangeable and memory and truth are mirrored distortions.
A Big Mess, 2023
Oil and watercolour monotype with linocut and pronto printed chine and collage and handwork
104.7 x 71.5 cm
R 43 450.00 VAT Incl. Framed
It’s a two for one special, 2023
Oil and watercolour monotype with linocut and pronto printed chine and collage and handwork
104.7 x 71.5 cm
R 43 450.00 VAT Incl. Framed
Aren’t you thankful it happened, 2024
Softground etching with drypoint, spitebit, handpainting, chine colle and collage.
Edition of 15
75 x 53 cm
R 18 850.00 VAT Incl. Framed
Boemo Diale (b. 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose highly personal work explores identity, generational trauma, dreams, and manifestations, speaking to the broader cultural inheritance of South African women.
Voluptuous obsidian bodies and more traditional feminine forms take turns resisting against and then complying with the limitations of her iridescent primordial environments. Diale’s visual narration takes on a dreamlike feeling with vivid tropical, graffitied scenes, and her figures often appear caught within the confines of a vessel or pushed up against the borders of her painted surface, belying a fierce questioning of her sense of place and ability to effect change. Diale’s work on film, canvas, and paper is strongly impacted by her desire to connect with her maternal lineage and tell inter-generational, place-specific stories. She introduces representations from her personal family archive into whimsical interior scenes, creating a tension between the artist’s reality and her envisaged world.
Studio Life: Peonies, 2022
Photogravure drypoint and chine collé
Edition of 28
44 x 54 cm
$ 7 000.00 Unframed
William Kentridge (b. 1955) is a world-renowned multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans printmaking, drawing, sculpture, writing, film, performance, music, theatre, and collaborative projects. Drawing forms the creative foundation of his work, whether it manifests as animated films, prints, collages, sculptures, tapestries, kinetic objects, or puppet-theatre pieces, resulting in an expansive and remarkably versatile oeuvre.
His work engages themes of politics, science, literature, and history, while simultaneously embracing contradiction and uncertainty. While many artists incorporate printmaking as a secondary aspect of their practice, Kentridge stands as a modern pioneer of the medium. Drawings and theatre projects frequently emerge from his prints, and vice versa, underscoring the centrality of printmaking within his broader practice. For Kentridge, printmaking is itself inherently multidisciplinary; he has described an etching as “an extraordinary, ridiculously complicated form of animation,” in which a single plate is continually reworked, producing multiple states over time.
Fireworks and Flowers, 2025
Monotype and drypoint with collage and handwork
37 x 56 cm
R 15 000.00 VAT Incl. Framed
Maja Maljević (b.1973) is an expressionist painter and printmaker combining organic and geometric shapes to seek harmony in disparate ideas. Motivated by the physicality of making art, she has a bright and organized style. Maljević explores the dynamism of positive and negative space and uses color value to convey her sentiments.
Her process always begins with breaking up the starkness of the blank canvas or page. In a move that can be viewed as “dirtying” the page, Maljević adds a layer of bright colour. From here, she can then let her intuition take over, filling the page with colours, shapes and lines, as well as drips, blocks, bands and waves. For her, movement is as important to her method as the initial step of “dirtying”, this results in dynamic and engaging works. Maljević’s art is a visual symphony of figurative and abstract, organic and geometric, obvious and elusive elements. Through her works, she aims to create a visual language that resonates with the viewer, much like music communicates emotion through sound.
Behind The Fan, Among Barberton Daisies I, 2025
Woodcut
Edition of 10
76.5 x 56 cm
R 59 500.00 VAT Incl. Unframed
Behind The Fan, Among Barberton Daisies II, 2025
Woodcut
Edition of 10
76.5 x 56 cm
R 51 000.00 VAT Incl. Unframed
Mary Sibande (b. 1982) is a contemporary South African artist working across a variety of mediums, from sculpture to photography and printmaking
Her work primarily explores how to reclaim the black female body in post-colonial and post-apartheid South Africa. Her work often portrays the artist’s alter-ego “Sophie”, a dreamer exploring worlds previously denied to her. Sophie is based upon Sibande herself, as well as the women in Sibande’s family, however, she is also a symbolic figure addressing many topics that remain relevant today, including blackness, femininity, labour and post-coloniality.
Sibande’s works are included in major collections internationally, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach; UMMA (University of Michigan Museum of Art), Ann Arbor; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Zeitz MOCCA, Cape Town; Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne; Iziko South African Museums, Cape Town, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Jean le Clus-Theron founded Le Clus Art Advisory and Collection Management, an independent practice based in Cape Town. She holds a Master’s in Art History from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, and her experience spans education and both the primary and secondary art markets, including valuation, collector advisory, and curatorial development. She was previously Head of Cape Town Art Department and Senior Art Specialist at Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading auction house.
Through Le Clus, Jean works with collectors on acquisitions, collection management, and curated art tours that bring people into closer contact with artists, galleries, and collections across the city. She is especially drawn to building enduring relationships between the people who make, collect, and engage with contemporary art.
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