"Woman Preparing Fish" by Amos Langdown, South African, (1930-2006) Color light foxing

light foxing

Traces of another head study are visible inverted below

meandering contour lines and experimental textures found in his work

identified in printed text in bottom margin

and quite rare

"Woman Preparing Fish" by Amos Langdown, South African, (1930-2006) Color light foxingAmos Langdown, South African, (1930 2006), Woman Preparing Fish, Woodcut, 1962, 15 9 16 x 10 7 8, Ed. of 3 6, on cream japan paper, signed in pencil. Slight foxing and handling creases in margins. Langdown was a prominent South African painter and also a masterful and prolific printmaker, who favored native South African subjects in his work. He won a grant from the South African governmet to study abroad in Holland, and had a distinguished career as