"Woman Preparing Fish" by Amos Langdown, South African, (1930-2006) Color meandering contour lines and experimental

meandering contour lines and experimental textures found in his work

Traces of another head study are visible inverted below

and quite rare

identified in printed text in bottom margin

"Woman Preparing Fish" by Amos Langdown, South African, (1930-2006) Color meandering contour lines and experimentalAmos 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