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Live Virtual Auction, 17 September 2024

Evening Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
  • George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba; Contrasts (Two Babies)
  • George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba; Contrasts (Two Babies)
  • George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba; Contrasts (Two Babies)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 300 000 - 500 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item

South African 1912-2001
Contrasts (Two Babies)

signed and dated 93; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on a South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse

oil on canvas
53,5 by 75cm excluding frame; 71,5 by 93 by 4,5cm including frame

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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