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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MJ Lourens is a multi-disciplinary contemporary South African artist, currently based in Cape Town. He was born in Pretoria and studied Fine Art Sculpture between 1992 and 1996 at the University of Pretoria. In 1995, Lourens won the Sasol New Signatures Competition, which was exhibited at the Pretoria Art Gallery. His practice includes painting, sculpture, and filmmaking. The artist’s sculptures, influenced by the surrealist movement, consist of human forms with heads replaced by a variety of found objects as representations of the human sub-conscious. Lourens has directed and produced numerous films, including Pa/Father which was screened at the Commonwealth Film Festival in 2006.
MJ Lourens has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in South Africa and in the United Kingdom. His work is represented in many public and private collections throughout South Africa.
Biography courtesy of the artist.
Provenance
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, 2018.
Property of Collectors.
Exhibited
Cape Town, Barnard Gallery, Views on Entropy, 24 April to 29 May 2018.
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