Gerard Sekoto
The Mandebele Girls
All images © Gerard Sekoto Foundation | DALRO
About this Item
South African 1913-1993
The Mandebele Girls
signed; inscribed with the title on the stretcher
oil on canvas
44 by 36cm excluding frame; 53,5 by 46 by 3cm including frame
Notes
"These were people with whom I used to live side by side in my youth. I wanted somehow to produce an African sculptural style as, in the house there was an African mask."
-Gerard Sekoto1
1Barbara Lindop (1988) Gerard Sekoto, Johannesburg: Dictum Publishing, page 189.
Provenance
Bonhams, London, 20 March 2013, lot 52.
Property of a Collector.
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