Johannesburg Auction Week

Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 9 November 2022

IN/FORM: Exploring South African Sculpture

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ZAR 819 360
Lot 218
  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Woman
  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Woman
  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Woman
  • Sydney Kumalo; Seated Woman


Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 819 360

About this Item

South African 1935-1988
Seated Woman

signed with the artist's initial and numbered VIII/X

bronze with green and brown patina on wooden base
height: 58.5cm, including base; width: 22cm; depth: 40cm

Literature

Grosvenor Gallery (1966) Kumalo–Skotnes, exhibition catalogue, London: Grosvenor Gallery, illustrated on front cover, catalogue number 21.

South African Breweries (1966) South African Breweries Biennale Art Prize 1966, exhibition catalogue, Cape Town: SAB, catalogue number 52.

Anonymous (1966) ‘Kumalo show’, Artlook, 1(1) November, illustrated on page 9.

South African Association of Arts (1967) Sydney Kumalo, Solo Exhibition of Bronzes and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: SAAA, catalogue number 8.

Anonymous (1967) ‘Artist’, Pretoria News, 21 March, illustrated on page 3.

Grosvenor Gallery (1968) Sculpture from the Human Form, exhibition catalogue, London: Grosvenor Gallery, catalogue number 38.

Lola Watter (1968) Sydney Kumalo - Sculptor, Lantern, 18(1) September: page 40, illustrated as plate 9.

Jenny Basson (1976) Zulu Culture Abroad, Bantu, 23(5) Hune, illustrated on page 7.

Lola Watter (1978) ‘Sydney Kumalo’, in Our Art Vol 3, Pretoria: Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, page 71, illustrated as figure V.

James Ambrose Brown (1978) South African Art, Cape Town: MacDonald, illustrated on page 53.

EJ de Jager (1978) Contemporary African Sculpture in South Africa, Fort Hare Papers, 6(6) September, illustrated as number 7.

Elza Miles (2004) Polly Street, The Story of an Art Centre, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation,page 132, illustrated as figure 161.

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