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Ephraim Ngatane

South African 1938-1971 


Ephraim Ngatane was born in Lesotho and raised in Soweto, and in 1952 he began attending classes at the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg run by Cecil Skotnes. He became a teacher at the Jubilee Art Centre in the company of Durant Sihlali after Polly Street was closed down, teaching artists Louis Maqhubela and Ben Macala. While undergoing treatment for tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Soweto he befriended Dumile Feni and the two artists painted murals for the institution. In his own work he concentrated on oil painting, documenting the politically-charged everyday reality of township life under the apartheid regime, but increasingly experimented with greater painterliness and abstraction later in his short career.


116 lots offered      62.07% sold      ZAR 9 055 108
 

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Ephraim Ngatane; Penny Whistler
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 29 313
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Ephraim Ngatane; Accordion Man
11 Mar 2024
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Ephraim Ngatane; Township Scene
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 46 900
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Ephraim Ngatane; Penny Whistler
27 Nov 2023
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Ephraim Ngatane; Accordion Man
27 Nov 2023
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Ephraim Ngatane; Township Scene
27 Nov 2023
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Ephraim Ngatane; Figures with Donkey Carts
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 76 213
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Ephraim Ngatane; Township Scene
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 23 450
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Ephraim Ngatane; Reading the Newspaper
15 May 2023
Sold for ZAR 41 038
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Ephraim Ngatane; Musicians
15 May 2023
Sold for ZAR 21 105
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Ephraim Ngatane; Children with a Donkey
15 May 2023
Sold for ZAR 23 450
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Ephraim Ngatane; Township Scene
13 Feb 2023
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