Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery

Live Auction, 7 October 2019

Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
  • Gerard Sekoto; Convicts Cutting the Hedge
  • Gerard Sekoto; Convicts Cutting the Hedge
  • Gerard Sekoto; Convicts Cutting the Hedge
  • Gerard Sekoto; Convicts Cutting the Hedge
  • Gerard Sekoto; Convicts Cutting the Hedge


Lot Estimate
ZAR 600 000 - 800 000

About this Item

South African 1913-1993
Convicts Cutting the Hedge

signed

oil on cardboard
23 by 22cm excluding frame

Notes

"This is done in Cape Town. The prisoners who were my neighbours are cutting a hedge at this time, before they are marched into their located place." Gerard Sekoto in Barbara Lindop, (1988) page 108.

In 1942, Sekoto moved to the outskirts of District Six in Cape Town where Brother Roger organized for him to rent a room with the Manuel family who lived opposite Roeland Street prison. He met with members of the New Group - contemporary South African artists who worked and exhibited together, including Judith Gluckman and Alexis Preller as well as Lippy Lipschitz, Gregoire Boonzaier, Louis Maurice, Solly Disner and Walter Battiss. During this time, his work was exhibited in a number of galleries in Cape Town, namely the Argus Gallery, with the New Group, and at the Jerome Gallery, where he and Louis Maurice held a joint exhibition in 1944. Barbara Lindop, (2013) page 112.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 14 March 2016, lot 496.

Literature

Barbara Lindop (1988) Gerard Sekoto, Randburg: Dictum Publishing. Page 108, illustrated in colour on page 109.

Barbara Lindop et. al. (2013) Song for Sekoto: Gerard Sekoto 1913-2013, Johannesburg: The Gerard Sekoto Foundation. Page 112, illustrated in colour on page 85.

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