Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 17 September 2024
Evening Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
About this Item
signed and dated 93; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on a South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse
Notes
“A study in differing psychological states of being, this endearing image of two babies reveals Pemba as a penetrating observer of the condition of childhood.”1
1. Sarah Hudleston (1996) Against All Odds: George Pemba: His Life and Works, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, page 151.
Exhibited
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, George Pemba Retrospective, 27 April to 28 July 1996, illustrated in colour on page 105, cat. no. 122.
Literature
Sarah Hudleston (1996) Against All Odds: George Pemba: His Life and Works, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, illustrated in colour on page 151.
Provenance
From the artist's private collection.
Private Collection, Monna Mokoena.
Private Collection, Cape Town.
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