Evening Sale

Live Virtual Auction, 28 May 2024

Evening Sale
  • Blessing Ngobeni; The Dance
  • Blessing Ngobeni; The Dance
  • Blessing Ngobeni; The Dance


Lot Estimate
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000

About this Item

South African 1985-
The Dance

signed and dated 12; inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and medium on a Gallery MOMO label adhered to the reverse; inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and medium on an Everard Read Gallery label adhered to the reverse

mixed media on paper
214 by 109cm excluding frame

Notes

I’m working to find the inner part of the human being. So I am stripping that person out … taking the clothes, the skin, the bones. I’m trying to see what can come out of this person. Then I rebuild. I call it the lust of the heart. It is never satisfied.

- Blessing Ngobeni

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