Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 21 September 2022

Evening Sale
  • Gerard Sekoto; The Mandebele Girls
  • Gerard Sekoto; The Mandebele Girls
  • Gerard Sekoto; The Mandebele Girls
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Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000
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About this Item

South African 1913-1993
The Mandebele Girls

signed; inscribed with the title on the stretcher

oil on canvas
44 by 36cm excluding frame; 53,5 by 46 by 3cm including frame

Notes

"These were people with whom I used to live side by side in my youth. I wanted somehow to produce an African sculptural style as, in the house there was an African mask."

—Gerard Sekoto1

1Barbara Lindop (1988) Gerard Sekoto, Johannesburg: Dictum Publishing, page 189.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 20 March 2013, lot 52.

Property of a Collector.

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