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African Fine Art

African art made here, not imported. Martin Osner's African Queen paintings, each one of one, his African Mood photography, and tribal portraits by Greg du Toit, Antti Viitala and Koos van der Lende. Prints are signed and numbered, and the work hangs in the gallery in Hout Bay.

The story

The faces and the places of a continent.

The African Queen paintings are Martin Osner's family of portraits, the Sisters of Eight, painted in acrylic and ink on canvas. Each one is an original, one of one, signed on the painting itself. Where a painting has already found a collector, a celebration print of her can be ordered through the gallery.

African Mood is the photographic side of the same subject, made near the Zimbabwean border, in the Drakensberg of KwaZulu Natal and across the Western and Northern Cape. As Martin puts it, the human form is an incredibly strong shape in visual art, and it does not matter how big or how small it is, if it is in the composition it will attract the eye.

Alongside those sit the Nelson Mandela portraits by Martin Osner and Samantha Lee Osner, the Children of Geluk, photographed on a farm school in the Karoo, and Road to Freedom. The tribal work comes from Greg du Toit, whose Tribal Heritage pictures were made with the people themselves, from Antti Viitala, with Zanzibar and Township Boy, and from Koos van der Lende, with Himba Kraal.

What you receive

The paintings are originals, one of one, signed by the artist on the canvas. The photographs are archival pigment prints on fine art paper, signed and numbered, with a certificate of authenticity, in editions that get smaller as the print gets larger. Delivery is free and insured, anywhere in the world.

Seeing the work

The African work hangs at Osner Gallery in Hout Bay, Cape Town, where you can see a painting in daylight before you decide. If it is the animals you are after rather than the people, the wildlife art collection sits beside this one.