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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.


122 lots offered      61.48% sold      ZAR 9 344 715
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; Street Scene with Spaza Shop
24 May 2010
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
 
Ephraim Ngatane; The Musicians
24 May 2010
Sold for ZAR 155 960
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; Musicians
7 Sep 2009
Sold for ZAR 155 960
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; Romance
7 Sep 2009
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
 
Ephraim Ngatane; The Penny Whistler
7 Sep 2009
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
 
Ephraim Ngatane; Boxers - The Knock Out Punch
7 Sep 2009
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
 
Ephraim Ngatane; Dirty Streets, Pimville Slums '66
7 Sep 2009
Sold for ZAR 289 640
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; Workmen clearing a Site
7 Sep 2009
Sold for ZAR 53 472
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; A Township Street Scene with Women and Children
7 Sep 2009
Sold for ZAR 50 130
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; A Head of a Woman
9 Mar 2009
ZAR 220 000 - 260 000
 
Ephraim Ngatane; Going on Leave
9 Mar 2009
Sold for ZAR 501 300
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ephraim Ngatane; The Penny Whistler
9 Mar 2009
Sold for ZAR 356 480
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT