Important South African Art
Live Auction, 16 May 2011
Session Two
About this Item
signed and dated 85; inscribed with the title on a label on the reverse
Notes
"The painting is one of a series of works by Pemba illustrating the story of Nonquase, the Xhosa woman whose prophecy resulted in the virtual suicide of the Xhosa Nation. This was painted sometime after Pemba wrote the musical play which was undoubtedly inspired by HE Dhlomo's play "The girl who killed to save." Sarah Huddleston, Pemba: Against all Odds, Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, 1996, page 144.
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