Eileen Hendriks
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Eloff, Fanie
Moloney, Melita
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Eileen Hendriks (née van Dyk) was the wife of a fellow artist Petrus Anton Hendriks. In 1937, Hendrik became the Director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Eloff met Eileen at an exhibition and they became friends . He sculpted her portrait in the same year as Hendriks had painted a portrait of Eloff. The original plaster is in the University of Pretoria Art Collection and was never cast in bronze.
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Art, Plaster, Woman, Portrait