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I was one of a large family, eight children, and we all used to settle down in father’s studio and lie on our tummies and draw … how we must have annoyed him, I hate to think now, always asking for more paint or ‘Is this all right?’ or ‘Is that all right?’

From an interview with Nora Heysen,
8 November 1965
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Still Life with Onions 1927
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Still Life with Onions 1927
oil on canvas; 45.5 x 61 cm
signed and dated lower right
Private collection