Somewhere in Cape Town there is perhaps a ’’bergie’’ who has a fondness for art, especially a work named ’’Ophelia’’ that was inspired by Impressionist Claude Monet. That is what artist Willem Pretorius deeply hopes. crime art
It is too horrific for him to imagine anything to the contrary – that an artwork worth nearly R100 000 – 100cm by 80cm – ended up as nothing more than firewood on an icy evening in Tamboerskloof in the Cape Town CBD.
’’A reward was offered to ’bergies’ living down the road for any information on who stole the painting, but I have heard nothing further from the people we lived with in Tamboerskloof. Perhaps someone initially thought it was a TV,’’ Pretorius, who has returned to Rosendal, told IOL.
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