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Ezrom Legae

South African 1938-1999 


South African sculptor, draughtsman and painter, Ezrom Legae, created work infused with powerful social commentary on life during the apartheid years. Legae is best known as a painter and sculptor of figures, heads and animals, executed in oil, conté, mixed media, bronze and clay.

Born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1938, Legae studied at the Polly Street Art Centre after attending school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School in Diepkloof, Soweto. From 1960–1964 Legae studied with Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo at the Jubilee Art Centre. In 1965 he took over Kumalo’s position as assistant to Skotnes, initially teaching and subsequently becoming co-director of the Jubilee Art Centre.

In 1970 Legae was awarded the USSALEP travel scholarship, enabling him to travel to Europe and the United States, and from 1972–1974 he was made director of the African Music and Drama Association Art Project. Legae participated in numerous international group exhibitions, including the ground-breaking Ricky Burnett exhibition Tributaries in 1985, winning both the Honourable Mention for Drawing at the Valparaiso Biennale in Chile in 1979 as well as the Oppenheimer sculpture Prize in 1969. Later he decided to leave teaching to pursue his career as a full-time artist, however, in 1980/1 he did work as a part-time instructor at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) and he was the Director of the Diepmeadow Town Council Art project until his death in 1999 at the age of 60.

Legae’s work is represented nationally, in several private and in most public art collections.


108 lots offered      71.30% sold      ZAR 11 636 578
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Ezrom Legae; Bull
15 Apr 2024
Sold for ZAR 7 622
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Abstract Animals, two
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 3 518
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Abstract Animals, two
12 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 3 518
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Head II (EL 35)
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 63 250
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Agonised Torso (EL24)
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 117 250
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Lonely Head (EL8)
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 140 700
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Builders
11 Sep 2023
Sold for ZAR 32 830
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Standing Female Torso (EL23)
5 Jul 2023
Starting at ZAR 100 000
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Ezrom Legae; Sacrifice (EL44)
5 Jul 2023
Starting at ZAR 80 000
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Ezrom Legae; Shepherd (With Goat) (EL45)
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 99 663
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Ezrom Legae; Two Figures
16 May 2023
Sold for ZAR 234 500
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Ezrom Legae; Bird
15 May 2023
Sold for ZAR 2 345
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT