Norman CATHERINE in the PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection

Norman CATHERINE

originally part of the

PELMAMA PERMANENT ART COLLECTION

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HIGHLIGHTS

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COMPLETE LISTING

in chronological date order, irrespective of medium, of 123 works by Norman Catherine

Highlights

Important airbrush and other earlier works by Norman CATHERINE

- all measurements in cm - height x width -

© Copyright on all works is held by the artist. No works may be reproduced or used in any way without the written permission from Norman Catherine.

For better viewing and more details, please click on each image!

Early airbrush period

Norman CATHERINE "Bushbuck Ridge", 1974 - airbrush - 066x065 cm (PELMAMA) © Norman CATHERINE

"Bushbuck Ridge", 1974 66x65

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"Queen Complete" 78x52	"Remembrance of things to come" 86x66
("Bushman Series" II/V, 1974)	("Bushman Series" III/V, 1974)

"Discrimination", 1976 54½x43

"Memorial", 1976 87x58

"Just thin layers", 1977 89x64

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"Zootomy", 1977 62x92

"Last letters from the wilderness", 1977 56x56

Middle airbrush period

"Ascension", 1977 33x33

"Monk", 1978 25x22

"Red Cactus I", 1978 28x27

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"Ramsay", 1978 32x29 (left panel)

"Monomania", 1978 32x29 (middle panel)

"The critic", 1978 25x22 (right panel)

Later airbrush period

"Walls without clouds", 1979 41x44

"Red Dream Cloth", 1980 56x44

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"Self portrait", 1981 42x35

Later period acrylic and mixed media paintings

"Apocalypse", 1982/84 acrylic/canvas 93½x76

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The last remains of another Man", 1988 - this centre piece is all that remains of the original work destroyed by the artist, measuring 171x66x24 cm (mixed media: wood, metal, canvas, acrylic).
...The central figure is trapped in an open coffin lined with spikes, smoking what is probably his last cigarette and gnawing on a bone ...

For more details, please click on the following picture of the original construction.

See also the artist's own website at http://www.normancatherine.co.za/

For further reading, please consult the following publications on Norman CATHERINE:

Norman CATHERINE "Now and Then" - A selection of work from 1968 to 2004" - catalogue accompanying the exhibition travelling through various South African museums - essay by Ashraf Jamal;

Norman CATHERINE (Hazel Friedman) (GG Editions, 2000) (ISBN 0-620-24970-6), in which a number of the artist's works in the PELMAMA PERMANENT ART COLLECTION are reproduced.

See also last entry on this link!

This page last updated 15th January, 2015

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"Zootomy", 1977 62x92	"Last letters from the wilderness", 1977 56x56