Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
Timed Online Auction, 13 - 28 February 2023
Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
About the SessionIncluding Property of Collectors and The Harry Kantor Collection.
Harry Kantor (1934-2019), a Capetonian, moved to Harare in the late 1950s. He supported local art institutions such as the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Gallery Delta, serving as Chairman of both institutions. He promoted Zimbabwe's artists globally and amassed over 300 works, including European and indigenous African painters, Victorian and Chinese pieces. His collection includes significant roots of early Zimbabwean painting. Five paintings from his collection are on display at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Arts' exhibition "When We See Us", featuring African figurative art.
Lots 51-62 can be viewed on our current Timed Online Auction, and lot 75 in our Curatorial Voices Auction, both taking place on the 28th of February.
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About this Item
signed, dated 2021, and inscribed with the artist's name on the reverse
Notes
Tafadzwa Tega was born in Harare in 1985. He started making art at the age of ten, inspired by his uncle and brother who are also artists. He went on to study art at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, where he had his first group show. Tega moved to South Africa in 2008, and thereafter joined Good Hope Art Studios. He produced his first solo show for AVA Gallery in Cape Town in 2012 and his second for World Art in 2014. Tega’s work can be found in several institutional and private collections, including Spier and the University of Cape Town. In 2020, Tega was chosen for Nando’s Creative Exchange and participated in an exhibition at "Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival". Tega's most recent exhibition, titled RWENDO – WHICH MEANS JOURNEY at the JD Malat Gallery, reached critical acclaim in 2022.
Biography courtesy of Africa First.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the current owner.
Exhibited
Shangri La Holistic Center, Cape Town, Wild Things, 24 March 2022.
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