Keith Alexander
South African 1946-1998
After the Vandals
signed and dated 92; inscribed with the artist's name, date and title on a plaque adhered to the frame; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on the reverse
oil on canvas
91 by 121cm excluding frame; 108 by 138 by 3,5cm including frame

Acquired from the artist by the current owner.

David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, page 232.

"My fascination with the ruins became something of a family joke,' he recalled. Yet he always readily acknowledged the power of these early manifestations of the flimsiness and impermanence of seemingly solid structures: those rows of shattered houses, walls crashed into craters of rubble, sagging and splintered roofs, and the private interiors of rooms so rudely and incongruously exposed. Seeing them as he did at a time already characterised by the inevitable insecurities associated with travel, these images burned themselves into his imagination as prototypes of haunting destruction and loss."1

1. David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, page 13.