19th century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 18 March 2019
19th century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 250 000 - 350 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 421 060
About this Item
South African 1935-1988
Bull
signed with the artist's initial and numbered VII/X
bronze with verdigris patina
height: 13cm
Notes
Sydney Kumalo was introduced to the tradition of Modernist sculpture by his mentor, Eduardo Villa, whom he met during his time teaching at the Polly Street Art Centre (where he enrolled as a student in 1952). There, under the tutelage of CecilSkotnes, he developed a unique sense of line in his drawing that would later translate into his anthropomorphically sculpted forms of animals and figures. The present lot relates a drawing titled Bull produced in 1966, where the shape and reductive pattern of the beast’s horns and ribcage are clearly visible.
Provenance
Stephan Welz & Co. In Association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, 30 November, 1987, lot 434.
Stephan Welz & Co. In Association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, 21 March, 1994, lot 57.
The Shill Collection.
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