Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi
Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
About the SessionNWU 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.
LOT 1
Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi
Modern Life: You Have Lost the Bird, You Only Have the Feathers
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 18 000 - 24 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 58 625
About this Item
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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