Notes

Lucas Sithole attended the Polly Street Art Centre from 1959 to 1960, where he studied painting and sculpture with Cecil Skotnes. This was the turning point of his career. In his practise he allowed the wood to dictate the form of his sculpture, while his subjects were ever-rooted in African mythology.

Sithole’s Had enough!, carved from Nkunsibomvu wood, bears testimony to Marilyn Martin’s observation that ‘(the artist's) method of sensed realism combined with expressive distortions, his concentration on surface manipulation and the play of light and shadow over the figures, emerge and merge with an iconography of the human being, the human condition, and animals'.¹

¹ Marilyn Martin. (1993) Lucas Sithole: Our Art 4 = Ons Kuns 4. Pretoria: Pretoria Foundation for Education Science and Technology. Pages 178-185.

Exhibited

Gallery 21, Johannesburg, 1982.

Republic Festival Arts Exhibition, May-June 1981, catalogue number 290.

Literature

The Haenggi Foundation. (2015) Lucas Sithole, 1931-1944: Highlights, Basel and Johoannesburg: The Haenggi Foundation. The work is illustrated in colour on the cover and page 95.

Catalogue of the Republic Festival Arts Exhibition, 1981. Page 54.