Norval Foundation Benefit Auction 2022
Live Virtual Auction, 8 December 2022
Norval Foundation Benefit Auction 2022
About the SessionStrauss & Co is delighted to once again join forces with the Norval Foundation in showcasing an outstanding selection of fully donated artworks, bespoke experiences and fine wine to be sold to benefit Norval Foundation and their Education Programme. We invite patrons of Norval Foundation and Strauss & Co clients to lend their support to this worthy cause.
The money raised by the auction will contribute to the museum’s future education programme and facilities, as well as the ongoing exhibitions programme that focuses primarily on making art available to people of all backgrounds.
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About this Item
signed and dated 2008
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Kindly donated by Norval Foundation Editions Programme.
After the WWII a surge of energy and talent emerged in the Johannesburg art community. At the centre of this new vitality that shifted local art production toward a more African sensibility was a group of predominantly new immigrants from Europe, including Italian-born Edoardo Villa who chose to make South Africa his home after he was released from the Sonderwater prison of war camp. As an art student in Italy Villa had been exposed to the great modernist artists of the time, and in South Africa he created a cross cultural synthesis deeply rooted in a particularly African convention, his experience of war and captivity, and the modern architecture and industrialisation of the city of Johannesburg and its surrounds.
He produced a prodigious body of extraordinary sculptures in bronze and cut steel over his long career, most notably his monumental public sculptures. Villa died in 2011 at the age of 95.
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