Through apparent contradictions, Heysen emerges as a markedly buoyant and durable individual, genial to friends and family, but with the production of his art ever paramount in his mind. His work vigourously and consistently reflects his at first nostalgically heroic, then nobly austere, view of his country.” 128p. : chiefly ill.(part col.) ; 26cm. Exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Hans Heysen.