South African and International Art, Decorative Art
Online-Only Auction, 7 - 17 July 2017
Paintings and Sculpture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000USD 2 091 - 3 136
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
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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