Notes

The present lot was recorded on the artist's website as follows:

'Artist's legend:  "She is surprised - why do people, tress (sic), water and everything else run away from her?  When she was in the water unseen, she saw people jumping around happily, young women dancing everyone in a happy mood.  But when she came out of the water to try to share their happiness and laughter, they started running away; trees fell, some were uprooted, there were cries all over, and some people even died.  And when she looked up, she saw some of the people's houses and roofs flying; they were coming to her as if they were appealing to her or saying:  save us!"

That is why she has a smiling face, because she was saying "why do all people run away from me, I only mean good and I don't want to harm anybody".'¹

¹https://www.sithole.com/SITHOLE-LS8716.htm, accessed on the 23rd August, 2021.

Provenance

Gallery 21, Johannesburg.

Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg, 13 September 2020, lot 1517.

Exhibited

Gallery 21, Johannesburg, 1987, catalogue number X16; 1992 catalogue number X08.

SA Association of Arts, Pretoria, 1989, catalogue number X07.

Kunstsammlung Kulturstiftung, Unterseen/Interlaken, Switzerland (Memorial Exhibition), 1995, catalogue number 14.

Artimex Fine Arts, Basel, 1997/1998.