Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Live Auction, 20 May 2019
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
About this Item
South African 1938-1971
Gamblers
signed
mixed media on paper
51,5 by 69,5cm excluding frame
Notes
Ephraim Ngatane was born in Lesotho and moved to Johannesburg in the early 1940s. He studied under Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre between 1952 and 1954. Although Ngatane earned a reputation for producing highly individual social-realist paintings descriptive of black urban life under apartheid, his output also records many instances of pleasure: boxing, jazz performances, weddings and a 1967 snowstorm in Soweto. He held sell-out exhibitions throughout the 1960s and up to his premature death in 1971 and was an important figurehead, playing an important role in mentoring Dumile Feni, among others. An accomplished colourist, his work is marked by lyrical impressionism and a selective use of abstraction.Other lots that might interest you
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