LUCAS SITHOLE

SITHOLE LS6701 "Mother of Tribes" ("Pregnant woman") ("Malitshaba"), 1965/1967 - Ironwood 061x044x044 cm

LS6701

"Mother of Tribes" ("Pregnant woman") ("Moeder van stamme") ("Malitshaba"), 1965/1967 - Ironwood - 061x044x044 cm

 

Collection:

University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries, Johannesburg

 

Provenance:

Gallery 101, Johannesburg

 

Work exhibited:

Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 1967

SITHOLE Retrospective Exhibitions held at

Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg + Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria 1979

Rembrandt Art Centre, Johannesburg ("University of the Witwatersrand Collection") - May/June 1981

"Johannesburg Art and Artists: Selections from a Century" - Johannesburg Art Gallery - 1986

 

Work illustrated:

Lucas SITHOLE in his workshop putting on final touches to LS6701 "Malitshaba"

Lucas Sithole in his studio applying finishing touches to "Mother of Tribes" ("Moeder van stamme") ("Malitshaba") in the 1965 version

 

The Canberra Times, ACT, Australia - 23rd July, 1965 ("Shows for South African Sculptor", ill. p.12)

Gallery 101, Johannesburg - Invitation card - 28.8.1967

Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - p. 53

The Star, Johannesburg (Topic Today) - 30.3.1981, ill.

"Johannesburg Art and Artists: Selections from a Century" - Johannesburg Art Gallery - 1986, p. 62, cat. 44

Book review by Marilyn Freitas - artcoza - December 2015

 

Lucas SITHOLE LS6701 shown on "Black Modernisms in South Africa (1940-1990) - Artworks drawn from the Wits Art Museum holdings" (April to June 2016) WAM (img per Facebook)

LS6701 shown on "Black Modernisms in South Africa (1940-1990) - Artworks drawn from the Wits Art Museum holdings" (6th April to 19th June 2016)  - Wits Art Museum WAM, Johannesburg

 

Work listed:

Work listed under cat. 179 (6) in „Sydney Kumalo and other Bantu artists of the Transvaal“ by Susanna Jansen van Rensburg (unpublished M.A. degree thesis handed in to Prof. Dr. F.G.E. Nilant, Dept. History of Art, University of Pretoria) (1968/69) - stated to be unsigned, red ivory wood.

Rembrandt Art Centre,  Johannesburg ("University of the Witwatersrand Collection") - May/June 1981, cat.

 

Press review:

Transvaler, Johannesburg - 21.8.1979, commented

Our Art4 Ons Kuns (F.E.S.T., Pretoria), 1993, commented

 

 

Note:

This sculpture is recorded and illustrated in the monograph published in 2015

“Lucas SITHOLE 1931 – 1994: Highlights 1966-1993” – ISBN 978-3-033-04655-9 – on pp. 8/9

 

 

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