Flora Wirgman
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EXHIBITED:
Pretoria, Pretoria Art Museum, 'Alexis Preller retrospective,', October 1972.
Provenance
A private European collection.
Preller was enthralled by the mystique of the Mapogga women and between 1950 and 1953 was preoccupied with the theme.
These stately matriarchal figures had reigned as high priestesses and the artist was keen to depict them in all their glory, despite their reduced circumstances when this work was painted.