a well-known landscape, portrait, and still life painter from South Africa. He was a well-known representative of Cape Impressionism, the creator of the New Group, and he made art that supported the anti-apartheid movement.

Moses Kottler was the one who gave Nita Spilhaus an easel in 1926 and Gregoire a box of paints in 1922, sparking a creative spark that would last for over eight decades. Gregoire’s father believed he could learn more from the artists around him and was adamantly opposed to receiving a formal education in the arts. His initial pair of oil paintings, titled “GREGOIRE,” were displayed at Ashbey’s Gallery in Cape Town in 1923. Two years later, he had his first solo show; he