LUCAS SITHOLE
LS6503
"Mother and child" ("Mother holding a baby"), 1965 - Liquid steel/lead on wire mesh armature, on wood base - 108x016x014 cm
Corporate Collection:
SA Reserve Bank, Cape Town
Provenance:
Die Kunskamer, Cape Town - June 1995
Priv. Collection, Johannesburg
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg
Work exhibited:
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg - 1966
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("African Art 1965"), 1965 (cat. price in 1965 was 430 gns.)
Work on auction:
Sotheby's Johannesburg - 8th May, 1995 - Lot 297 - realised ZAR9'000 / CHF 2'900 (mislabelled as a bronze)
Original Work mentioned in press review:
The Star, Johannesburg - commented in review of 18th February, 1965
Work illustrated:
Sotheby's Johannesburg - 8th May, 1995 - Lot 297, ill.
“Figure – Ground: reflections on the South African Reserve Bank“ ( Rory Bester ) (SA Reserve Bank, Pretoria), 2007 ill. p. 162 - ISBN 0-9585044-3-1
www.resbank.co.za/AboutUs/CorporateCitizenship/Documents/Page%20157to168.pdf
Bronze casts
Three casts were made by the Adler Fielding Galleries:
Cast LS6503.1 in London - ex coll. Prof. N.L.H., London
Cast LS6503.2 - ex coll. Z. Jansen, Germiston
Cast LS6503.3 - whereabouts unknown
LS6503.1
Work listed:
Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - p. 223 (wrong measurements indicated)
LS6503.2 or LS6503.3
Work in press review:
The Star (or Rand Daily Mail), Johannesburg - 31.3.1966 (bronze ill. + commented)
Original Work as illustrated in Sotheby's Johannesburg 8th May, 1995 auction catalogue
LS6503