African Lion: John Muafangejo Works from The Orde Levinson Collection

Online-Only Auction, 23 April - 3 May 2021

A Beautiful Ovamboland

Sold for

ZAR 175 875
Lot 39
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
  • John Muafangejo; Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way
All images © The Estate of John Muafangejo (The John Muafangejo Trust). All rights reserved. DACS 2017


Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 175 875

About this Item

Namibian 1943-1987
Elephant is Killing a Lion in Funny Way

signed, dated 1975 and numbered 70/100 in pencil in the margin; dated 1975 and inscribed with the title in the block

 

linocut
image size: 45 by 34,5cm; sheet size: 58 by 45cm, unframed

Provenance

Orde Levinson Collection.

Literature

Orde Levinson (1992) I was Lonelyness: The Complete Graphic Works of John Muafangejo, Cape Town: Struik, catalogue number 103.

Orde Levinson (2020) Visions of Love and Sorrow: The Art of John Muafangejo, Windhoek: Kuiseb, illustrated on page 74 as figure 37.

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