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Nel Erasmus (born 1928 in Bethal, Transvaal Province, South Africa) is a South African artist. Erasmus studied at the Académie Ranson, École des Beaux Arts, and the Sorbonne in Paris in 1953, and exhibited her works for the first time in Paris in 1955. Her first solo exhibition was in South Africa in 1957 and she is one of the earliest South African abstract artists. Erasmus has produced thirty solo exhibitions, taken part in more than seventy group exhibitions and her writing has been widely published. Her work received critical acclaim as she was the only South African artist to be included in Michel Seuphor’s 1964 survey of abstraction, Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment.

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  • Nel Erasmus (born 1928 in Bethal, Transvaal Province, South Africa) is a South African artist. Erasmus studied at the Académie Ranson, École des Beaux Arts, and the Sorbonne in Paris in 1953, and exhibited her works for the first time in Paris in 1955. Her first solo exhibition was in South Africa in 1957 and she is one of the earliest South African abstract artists. Erasmus has produced thirty solo exhibitions, taken part in more than seventy group exhibitions and her writing has been widely published. Her work received critical acclaim as she was the only South African artist to be included in Michel Seuphor’s 1964 survey of abstraction, Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment. Erasmus spent time in Paris in the early 1950s with other South Africans (Christo Coetzee, Paul du Toit, and ) who were inspired by the intuitive processes of post-war abstract painting in Paris. (en)
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  • Nel Erasmus (born 1928 in Bethal, Transvaal Province, South Africa) is a South African artist. Erasmus studied at the Académie Ranson, École des Beaux Arts, and the Sorbonne in Paris in 1953, and exhibited her works for the first time in Paris in 1955. Her first solo exhibition was in South Africa in 1957 and she is one of the earliest South African abstract artists. Erasmus has produced thirty solo exhibitions, taken part in more than seventy group exhibitions and her writing has been widely published. Her work received critical acclaim as she was the only South African artist to be included in Michel Seuphor’s 1964 survey of abstraction, Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment. (en)
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