C. 100 Sculptures

Timed Online Auction, 19 June - 5 July 2023

Session One

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  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Zulu Maiden (SK124)
  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Zulu Maiden (SK124)
  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Zulu Maiden (SK124)
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ZAR 120 000 - 180 000
Location
Johannesburg
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Sydney Kumalo
South African 1935-1988
Seated Zulu Maiden (SK124)

stamped with the artist's name and numbered 1/5; cast posthumously (1997)

bronze with a dark brown patina
height: 82cm; width: 44cm; depth: 39cm

Notes

Seated Zulu Maiden (SK124), cast posthumously by Vignali in 1997 by Goodman Gallery, is the same seated girl in the evocative Girl with Bird (SK77), produced by the Egon Guenther Gallery in 1970. Sadly the bird, which had been perched on the girl's hands, is absent from the recast sculpture. The original casting mould or terracotta that included the bird must have been damaged beyond repair.1

1Gavin Watkins and Charles Skinner (2023) The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae: A Catalogue Raisonné, Johannesburg: Strauss & Co, page 57.

Provenance

Goodman Gallery.

The John and Elisabeth Bradley Collection, Johannesburg.

Literature

Gavin Watkins and Charles Skinner (2023) The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae: A Catalogue Raisonné, Johannesburg: Strauss & Co, another cast illustrated in colour on pages 57, 401, 402 and 624.

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