Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art and Wine

Online-Only Auction, 16 - 23 August 2021

Guest Curator: Amohelang Mohajane
About the Session

NWU Gallery curator and collections manager Amohelang Mohajane is the guest curator for our August online-only auction. Her selection is carefully curated in celebration of Women’s Month. Mohajane has participated as a curator in over 30 exhibitions in the past 10 years, contributing to powerful visual and academic narratives relating to feminism, postcolonialism, and South African and African Art. 

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ZAR 58 625
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  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
  • Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi; Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
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ZAR 18 000 - 24 000
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ZAR 58 625

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Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi
South African 1943-
Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers

signed and dated 2004/5; inscribed with the title on the reverse; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium on an Everard Read label adhered to the reverse

oil and chalk pastel on paper
sheet size: 55 by 73cm; 72,5 by 90,5 by 2,5cm including frame

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 12 November 2012, lot 94.

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