FRANCOIS ROUX (1927-2013) Shipyard Scene, South Africa

signed and dated '73 lower right, oil on canvas, 50cm x 60cm

Francois Roux was born in 1927 at Fort Victoria, Masvingo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1946, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London and travelled in Europe completing his studies in painting at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1951 before returning to Zimbabwe to nurse his ailing parents. In 1967 he moved to Cape Town where he lived until his death in 2013.