South African and International Art, Decorative Art

Online-Only Auction, 7 - 17 July 2017

Paintings and Sculpture

Sold for

ZAR 70 260
Lot 124
  • Tienie Pritchard; People from a Lost World
  • Tienie Pritchard; People from a Lost World


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 70 260

About this Item

South African 1938-2021
People from a Lost World
executed in 1983

signed

bronze on a marble base
height: 84cm excluding base; 90cm including base

Notes

From an edition of 15.

"This sculpture, inspired by a Remington painting, depicts an American Indian of the Sioux tribe, holding a bison scull above his head, conducting a spiritual ritual to bring back the bison herds, which were decimated almost to extinction by foreign hunters. The figure is emaciated by famine and hardship because of the bison’s disappearance and portrays the American Indian’s acknowledgement of and need for communication with a spiritual dimension."

Tienie Pritchard. (2017) People from a lost world, [Online], Available: http://tieniepritchard.co.za/?portfolio=people-from-a-lost-world [21 June 2017].

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