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Live Virtual Auction, 8 - 11 November 2020
Contemporary Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 28 450
About this Item
South African 1977-
True Colours
signed and dated 2013 on the reverse
oil on canvas
70 by 110cm excluding frame; 72,5 by 112,5 by 6cm including frame
Notes
The present lot is the title work from Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi’s solo exhibition, True Colours, at the Barnard Gallery in 2014.
‘As the idiom suggests, the definition of true colours is to reveal the reality beneath the mantle of appearance. In this show, Ngqinambi deals with divergent discourses around truth, memory and history, as conveyed through the flag, one of history’s most semantically loaded emblems.’1
1. Hazel Friedman (2014) Artthrob, True Colours: Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi at Barnard Gallery, http:// artthrob.co.za/Listings/Ndikhumbule_Ngqinambi_ at_Barnard_Gallery_in__May_2014.aspxExhibited
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi: True Colours, 22 May to 10 July 2014.
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