Notes

Hugging Nude is the only work by Sydney Kumalo to have been cast at the Bronzart Famici Mendrisio foundry in Switzerland. The costs proved prohibitive and only a small number of the planned edition of 10 were completed. The remaining casts were produced in South Africa.

Thanks to Gavin Watkins for assistance with cataloguing this lot.

Provenance

Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg.

Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, October 2014, lot 531.

Private Collection, Valencia.

Exhibited

Grosvenor Gallery, 12 July to 6 August 1966, another cast illustrated, catalogue number 22.
Grosvenor Gallery, 20th Century Sculpture: Archipenko to Reddy, 6 to 22 June 2007, another cast illustrated, catalogue number 22 (edition 3/10).

Literature

Walter Battiss (1967) ‘A New African Art in SA’, Optima, March, illustrated.