Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 21 September 2022

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 373 520
Lot 231
  • Gerard Sekoto; In the Fields
  • Gerard Sekoto; In the Fields
  • Gerard Sekoto; In the Fields


Lot Estimate
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
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Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 373 520

About this Item

South African 1913-1993
In the Fields

signed and dated 1952; inscribed with the title on the reverse

oil on canvas
37,5 by 60,5cm excluding frame; 57,5 by 80,5 by 3cm including frame

Notes

In 1988, Gerard Sekoto refers to a similarly themed painting to the present lot which gives great insight into the reasons for the artist’s choice of subject at the time. “This painting must have been done during that period when I felt rather unstable in mind, lacking the right place in which to work whilst at the same time trying as much as possible not to be caught up and taken directly into any of the particular schools of painting... Here also I tried taking my thoughts as far back as possible to the years I lived on the farm. Thinking of the round huts and the red earth. These I used to make it look quite African and far away from that which could have threatened to enclose me.”1

1. Barbara Lindop (1988) Gerard Sekoto, Johannesburg: Dictum Publishing, page 192.

Provenance

Atlantic Gallery, New York.

Property of a Collector.

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