Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
Timed Online Auction, 13 - 28 February 2023
Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
About the SessionIncluding Property of Collectors and The Harry Kantor Collection.
Harry Kantor (1934-2019), a Capetonian, moved to Harare in the late 1950s. He supported local art institutions such as the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Gallery Delta, serving as Chairman of both institutions. He promoted Zimbabwe's artists globally and amassed over 300 works, including European and indigenous African painters, Victorian and Chinese pieces. His collection includes significant roots of early Zimbabwean painting. Five paintings from his collection are on display at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Arts' exhibition "When We See Us", featuring African figurative art.
Lots 51-62 can be viewed on our current Timed Online Auction, and lot 75 in our Curatorial Voices Auction, both taking place on the 28th of February.
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About this Item
signed, numbered 2/22, inscribed with the title in pencil, and embossed with the Artists' Press chopmark in the margin
Notes
Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland in 1982. She works between Cape Town and Johannesburg. Mntambo obtained her Master's in Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. In 2011, Mntambo was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. She has had several solo shows in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Europe, with her work being included in many group shows locally and internationally.
Provenance
The Artists' Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2014.
Property of Collectors.
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