Christo Coetzee
South African artist (1929-2000) · South Africa · On the map · Artists · Died at 71
Christo Coetzee was a South African assemblage and Neo-Baroque artist closely associated with the avant-garde art movements of Europe and Japan during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Pompeian Lobster, ca.1954, oil on hardboard, 120 x 120 cm
Painting Yellow, 1957, oil on assemblage, 182 x 91 x 11 cm, Jan du Toit Collection
Untitled, 1957, oil on canvas, Jan du Toit Collection
Christo Coetzee (right) and Michio Yoshihara, Osaka (1959)
Et in Arcadia Ego, 1964, 195 x 130 cm, oil on canvas
Homage to Balla, 1975, 67 x 79 cm, gouache on paper
The Perfect One, 1994, 122 x 122 cm, oil on panelAbout this person
Under the influence of art theorist Michel Tapié, art dealer Rodolphe Stadler and art collector and photographer Anthony Denney, as well as the Gutai group of Japan, he developed his oeuvre alongside those of artists strongly influenced by Tapié's Un Art Autre (1952), such as Georges Mathieu, Alfred Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies and Lucio Fontana.
