A famous landscape artist, Gerrit Pitout (71), who was also well known in the Lowveld, has sadly passed away in the Upington Mediclinic on Sunday, December 15, when his vital organs failed. Pitout’s ...
Perhaps the most valuable work the MFA has decided to part with is “Bandits Leading Prisoners” (about 1646), a large landscape painting by Jan Both estimated to sell for as much as $1.5 million.