1933 - 2015
sculptures in metal
Works in museums - Works sold on auction
Other references, publications and links
Berrell Elizabeth Jensen in 1967
1958 was art lecturer, Johannesburg School of Art
1983 gave art/sculpture lecture at Architectural Association, London
1968 - 1972 lived in Greece; 1972 - 1975 lived in England; 1975 moved to Ireland
Berrell Elizabeth Jensen, born on 22.3.1933, married to Anton Jensen, had 2 children - Michael Robin Jensen (b. 1958), Sandra Anne Jensen (b. 1961) - she had a heart attack and died in Cork, Ireland, on 25th July, 2015.
Random reminiscences by Sandra Jensen
Facebook - Public Posts by Sandra Jensen
Pabros Theatre, Durban - 1960
New Directions, Johannesburg - 1962
Gallery Shear, Cape Town - 5th April, 1965
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 29th November, 1965
Gallery Shear, Cape Town - July 1966
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 23rd November, 1966
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 20th November, 1967
Gallery 101 Hyde Park, Johannesburg - 20th February, 1972
The Village Gallery, Pretoria - 28th June, 1972
SA Association of Arts, Cape Town - 1972
Compendium Galleries, Birmingham - 3rd March, 1973
Elvaston Gallery, London - 1973
Butlin Gallery, Dillington House, Ilminster - 1973
Drian Galleries, London - 21st May, 1974
Gallery 21 Hyde Park Johannesburg - 7th September, 1974
Michael + Ann Sutton Home, Parktown North, Johannesburg - 1975 and 1976
1979 Belfast, N. Ireland
1960 "Natal Artists", Durban
1962 "Group Exhibition", New Directions, Johannesburg
1962 Two-person show with Peter Davis, New Directions, Johannesburg
1963 Two-women show with Barbara Greig, New Directions, Johannesburg
1964 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg - The Year's Findings
1965 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg - Artists of Fame & Promise
1966 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria "Republican Festival Exhibition"
1966 Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet - Opening exhibition
1967 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg "South African Sculptors"
1967 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria "Johannesburg artists"
1968 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg - Kinetic Sculpture - 2-person show with Douglas Jay
1970 New Forms Gallery, Athens Greece
1971 Gallery 101, Johannesburg "10 South African Sculptors"
1972 Gallery 101, Johannesburg "South African Sculptors"
1973 Bruton Art Gallery, Somerset UK
1974 Chapel Gallery, Wessex Wilts UK - "Three women"
1974 Gallery 21 London
1976 Octagon Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
1976/8 Ireland House, Dublin
1985 Hampstead Hall, Hampstead, London
Public commissions in South Africa - a selection of images and text - (PDF 1.39 MB - 8 pages)
Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg - VIP lounge 1971 - 4m x 18m
Public commissions in Ireland - see PDF list (other images on request)
Longford Westmeath Hospital, Mullingar, Ireland - mural from 1997 in copper, bronze and enamels - 1.54m x 5.25m (click on image for details)
"Evolution", 1967 - ill. on cover of ARTLOOK 11
see also the PHOTO ALBUM with 15 images!
Tabletop late 60s/early 70s - copper, brass, enamel - glass covered
"Biosphere" - abt. 46 cm Ø
Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
"Landscape", 1965 - 81x60 cm
(img © The Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet)
Sotheby’s Online Houston TX USA - December, 2001 (from the Rex Grey Family Collection - Provenance: Gallery 101, Johannesburg):
Metal Relief Brass on Wood - Lot # 39V55
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Strauss & Co. Johannesburg - 1st November, 2010
Lot 122 - first wrongly attributed to another artist - sold on 1.11.2010 for ZAR69'000
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Greenslide Taylor Hunt Auctioneers, Taunton UK - 20th September, 2012 - The Joy Barnes Collection - Lot 107
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Bonhams Knightsbridge London - 16th October, 2012 - Lot 70
"Abstract", undated bronze - 48cm H - Lot 70
The Star, Johannesburg - 25th March, 1965 - article with ill.
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg - 30th November, 1965 - review with ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 30th November, 1965 - review with ill.
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 1st December, 1965 - image of artist and architect Jan van Gemert
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 3rd December, 1965 - review
Die Burger, Cape Town - 29th July, 1966 - review
The Cape Times, Cape Town - 30th July, 1966 - review
News/Check Johannesburg - 21st October, 1966, p. 48, ill.
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 22nd November, 1966 - review
The Star, Johannesburg - 22nd November, 1966 - review
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 25th November, 1966 - ill.
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg - 28th November, 1966 - article with ill.
ARTLOOK 1, Johannesburg - November, 1966 p. 20
ARTLOOK 2, Johannesburg - December, 1966, p. 5, article with ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 24th February, 1967 - image of the artist and "Fountain"
ARTLOOK 5, Johannesburg - March/April, 1967, p. 12, ill.
ARTLOOK 11, Johannesburg - October, 1967 - "Evolution" ill. on cover, ill. interview pp. 20/21
ARTLOOK 20, Johannesburg - July, 1968 - cover and article with images pp. 24/25
The Star, Johannesburg - 2nd March, 1972 - article with ill.
Rand Daily Mail (?), Johannesburg - undated (August 1974?) - article with ill.
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - September, 1974 - review
The Star, Johannesburg - 18th September, 1974 - review
Sandton Chronicle, Sandton - September 1974 - announcement with ill. of "Thalassa" mural
Art London Vol. XXVI No 24 - 29th November, 1974 - review
The Star, Johannesburg - 19th December, 1974 - article with ill.
ART SOUTH AFRICA V.6.2, Cape Town - November, 2007 - ill. on http://artsouthafrica.com/?article=397
Obituary references 2015
The Guardian, London - 13th November, 2015
Camden New Journal, London - 26th November, 2015
Architectural Association - School of Architecture - London WC1 - 2015
S.A. Art – S.A. Kuns – Twentieth Century South African Art” (Human & Rousseau, 1966), fig. 97, p. 127
"Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Southern Book), 1983, listed p. 516
„The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia“ (Ogilvie / Graff) (Everard Read), 1988 – ISBN 0 620 12663 9 – listed on p. 316
"Drian Galleries - a short history be Max Wykes-Joyce", 2009 - listed on pp 78+79 - ISBN 978-0-9555183-3-1
www.pelmama.org - do an internal search for "Berrell Jensen"!
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Last update of this page - 15th June, 2016