LUCAS SITHOLE
LS7003.0
"Mother and child", 1970 - Rhodesian teak - copper oxide patina applied - 139x019x015 cm
Provenance:
Priv. Coll., Cape Town
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - October, 1970
Work auctioned:
Sotheby's Cape Town - 15/16th October, 2002 - Lot 509 - realised ZAR132'000 / CHF19'100
Work illustrated:
Sotheby's Cape Town - 15/16th October, 2002 - Lot 509, p. 99, ill. in colour
Note: from this work, 3 authorised bronze casts were made through Gallery 101. In addition, Renzo Vignali had made a foundry cast unrecorded until 2010 - see below!
LS7003.1
"Mother and child", 1970 - Bronze 1/3 - copper oxide patina applied - 139x019x015 cm
Provenance:
Priv. Coll., Germiston
Gallery 101, Johannesburg
Work exhibited:
SITHOLE Retrospective Exhibitions held at
Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg + Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria 1979
Work auctioned:
Sotheby's Johannesburg - 8th May, 2000 - Lot 841 - realised ZA72'000 / CHF17'300
Work illustrated:
Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - p. 85, with first owner's name
LS7003.2
"Mother and child", 1970 - Bronze 2/3 - 139x019x015 cm
Provenance:
Gallery 101, Johannesburg
Work illustrated:
SA Digest, Pretoria - 21st February, 1975, p. 8
Whereabouts and condition of this cast not known
LS7003.3
"Mother and child", 1970 - Bronze 3/3 - without copper oxide patina - 139x019x015 cm
Provenance:
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg - 2006
Lucas Sithole Estate - 2005
Gallery 101, Johannesburg
Work on auction:
Strauss & Co Fine Arts Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 7th September, 2009 - Part II. - Lot 61 (unsold)
Work illustrated:
On website catalogue of Strauss & Co. Johannesburg - 7th September, 2009 - Part II., Lot 61, p. 76
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Note:
This signed cast - LS7003.3 - was only discovered in 2005 by Lucas Sithole's son Johannes Buti who lives in his parents first home and who found it dug under some rubble in their garden, together with 5 other hitherto unrecorded unsigned and unfinished works from his father!
This cast had been broken at the neck and was repaired by Johannes Buti in 2005 and professionally by the Everard Read Gallery in 2006 and its sale was accordingly permitted by the copyright holders on behalf of the whole Sithole Estate.
LS7003.F1
"Mother and child", 1970 - bronze - unauthorised foundry cast, without copper oxide patina applied - 139x019x015 cm
Provenance:
Priv. Collection, Johannesburg
Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg
Priv. Collection NM, Pretoria
Renzo Vignali Foundry, Pretoria
This until 2010 unrecorded unauthorised foundry cast was acquired by first purchaser NM directly from the Renzo Vignali Foundry, Pretoria
Work on auction:
Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 16th April, 2011 - P541 - realised ZAR330'000 / CHF42'800
Graham's Fine Arts Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 19th May, 2010 - Lot 105 - realised ZAR409'250 / CHF62'000
Work illustrated:
On website catalogue of Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 16th April, 2011 - Img. 541
On website catalogue of Graham's Fine Arts Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 19th May, 2010 - Lot 105
Note:
The original work in Lucas SITHOLE's studio is illustrated on YOUTUBE.
Stills from the documentary "Lucas Sithole, sculptor"
produced and directed by Richard Harvey in 1968/1970.
The 12' documentary can be seen on
http://youtu.be/mhOqAuqn1OE.
Lucas SITHOLE is explaining his work which relates to his life around him,
supported by music composed by Professor Alan Solomon. Included are a number
of views taken at the studio in Kwa-Thema, including this work at various
pos. between 5'14" to 5'33", and of the work on show at Gallery 101 in
October, 1970 at pos. 9'26".
Updated to 20th May, 2017