Saturday Live
Live Auction, 19 October 2019
Session One
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 60 000
About this Item
South African 1934-1989
Pachipamwe No. 5
dated 'July 1989' and inscribed with the artist's name and the title on the reverse
mixed media including acrylic gel on canvas
164 by 168 by 4,5cm
Notes
The word ‘pachipamwe’ is a Shona greeting to someone one was momentarily parted from, when being reunited. It was also the name of a series of artists’ workshops that Ainslie attended in Zimbabwe in the 1980s.
Literature
Pat Williams (1990) Last Paintings by Bill Ainslie 1934–1989, Johannesburg: African Arts Trust and Gencor Development Fund. Illustrated in colour on page 7.
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