The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae

The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae is a comprehensive catalogue raisonné and census of the sculptures of the important South African artists/sculptors Sydney Kumalo (1935–1988) and Ezrom Legae (1938–1999).

This is the first publication of its kind on these world-class artists who exhibited broadly in South Africa, England, Italy and the United States during the 1960s–1990s. As such, it will be an invaluable reference for art historians, academics, and collectors.

The authors Gavin Watkins and Charles Skinner have spent 25 years researching, compiling and writing the catalogue raisonné. They have had extensive input from the Kumalo and Legae families, from the artists’ Johannesburg gallerists Egon Guenther and Linda Goodman (Givon) (Goodman Gallery), as well as from the Grosvenor Gallery (London). The artists’ teachers and mentors, Cecil Skotnes and Edoardo Villa, also made significant contributions.

The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae – A Catalogue Raisonné was published by Strauss & Co in June 2023, on a not-for-profit basis.

‘The Lives of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae’ is largely based on the Catalogue Raisonné. Rather than focus on the sculptures produced by Kumalo and Legae it concentrates instead on the two artists, their upbringing, their teachers, mentors and gallerists and how Kumalo and Legae prospered against all the odds in Apartheid South Africa.

‘The Lives…’ has been produced for use on mobile devices. tablets and laptops and can be read, printed and shared for free provided the aforementioned are for personal use only.