Self Portrait met kopmus

A portrait of an elderly man wearing a traditional flat cap, rendered in pastel on paper with economical, gestural marks. The work captures the subject’s lined face with particular attention to his penetrating gaze and contemplative expression. The artist employs a restrained palette of browns, blacks and whites, working quickly across the paper to convey both physiognomy and character. Boonzaier was a founding figure of Cape Impressionism whose career spanned more than eighty years.