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Live Virtual Auction, 8 - 11 November 2020

Contemporary Art

Sold for

ZAR 28 450
Lot 638
  • Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi; True Colours
  • Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi; True Colours
  • Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi; True Colours
  • Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi; True Colours


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 28 450

About this Item

South African 1977-
True Colours

signed and dated 2013 on the reverse

oil on canvas
70 by 110cm excluding frame; 72,5 by 112,5 by 6cm including frame

Notes

The present lot is the title work from Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi’s solo exhibition, True Colours, at the Barnard Gallery in 2014.

‘As the idiom suggests, the definition of true colours is to reveal the reality beneath the mantle of appearance. In this show, Ngqinambi deals with divergent discourses around truth, memory and history, as conveyed through the flag, one of history’s most semantically loaded emblems.’1

1. Hazel Friedman (2014) Artthrob, True Colours: Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi at Barnard Gallery, http:// artthrob.co.za/Listings/Ndikhumbule_Ngqinambi_ at_Barnard_Gallery_in__May_2014.aspx

Exhibited

Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi: True Colours, 22 May to 10 July 2014.

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