Everard Read regrets to announce the passing of the eminent South African artist, Harold Voigt, born 1 May 1939 in Johannesburg.

Over a long and productive career, Voigt became one of the finest painters of this era. His searingly insightful renderings of the South African landscape and quiet interiors of his home and studio were collected internationally.
 
Everard Read was privileged to represent this thoughtful, elegant man from the mid-1970s. Many successful exhibitions attested to Voigt’s rise to the front rank of figurative painting in South Africa. “There simply hasn’t been a better painter wielding a brush during my era as a dealer,” says Mark Read. “Voigt’s painstaking accumulation of oil paint and glazes on canvas is technically on a par with the best of the old masters.”
 
Never a man to court fashion in contemporary art commentary, Voigt was nonetheless avidly sought after by collectors and institutions globally. He shall be profoundly missed. 
 
An exhibition celebrating this exceptional South African painter’s life will be presented in the coming months.