Notes

"This is done in Cape Town. The prisoners who were my neighbours are cutting a hedge at this time, before they are marched into their located place." Gerard Sekoto in Barbara Lindop, (1988) page 108.

In 1942, Sekoto moved to the outskirts of District Six in Cape Town where Brother Roger organized for him to rent a room with the Manuel family who lived opposite Roeland Street prison. He met with members of the New Group - contemporary South African artists who worked and exhibited together, including Judith Gluckman and Alexis Preller as well as Lippy Lipschitz, Gregoire Boonzaier, Louis Maurice, Solly Disner and Walter Battiss. During this time, his work was exhibited in a number of galleries in Cape Town, namely the Argus Gallery, with the New Group, and at the Jerome Gallery, where he and Louis Maurice held a joint exhibition in 1944. Barbara Lindop, (2013) page 112.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 14 March 2016, lot 496.

Literature

Barbara Lindop (1988) Gerard Sekoto, Randburg: Dictum Publishing. Page 108, illustrated in colour on page 109.

Barbara Lindop et. al. (2013) Song for Sekoto: Gerard Sekoto 1913-2013, Johannesburg: The Gerard Sekoto Foundation. Page 112, illustrated in colour on page 85.