Esmé Berman (1929 - 4 June 2017[1]) was a South African art historian.[2] She earned a degree in visual arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1946.[3] In 1952, she married Hymie Berman, an art collector.[4] She is best known for writing Art and Artists of South Africa, the first comprehensive reference work on South African artists, in 1970.[5] Witswatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on Berman in 2016 to recognize her contributions to South African art.[6]
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