Release the Lock and get into Gear for Modernist art

London became the training ground for many young South African artists during the inter-war years. Among them was Cape Town painter Freida Lock (1902-62) who attended Heatherley School of Art and the Central School of Art where she was introduced to the works of post-Impressionists such as Van Gogh, Cézanne and Braque.

It was the influence of this European Modernist education that prompted Lock to found The New Grou…

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