LUCAS SITHOLE
LS7101
"Wounded Buffalo", 1971 - Bronze 1/1 - approx. 150 cm high
Provenance:
Gallery 101, Johannesburg
Bracken Mines Ltd., Recreation Centre, Evander (unveiled 24.10.71)
Work commissioned by:
Union Corporation Ltd., Johannesburg
based on the maquette submitted
Preparatory work:
Plaster cast completed by Lucas Sithole at the studio of Hennie Potgieter, well-known Afrikaans sculptor in Schoemansville, Transvaal
Bronze cast by Hendrik Joubert, Schoemansville
Work auctioned:
sold by public auction to a private purchaser in Boksburg North when Bracken Mines closed down
Work illustrated on Web - 2014:
Work reproduced in:
The Star Johannesburg - 13.10.1971, ill. + commented
Union Corporation Ltd., Johannesburg - Annual Report 31.12.1971 - col. plate
SA Digest, Pretoria - 21.2.1975, p. 8, ill.
SA Panorama, Pretoria - Aug. 1975, p. 37 ill.
Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - col. plate I.
Looking at South African Art (Harmsen) (van Schaik), 1985, p. 103 ill.
Press review:
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 27.9.1976, commented
The Springs African Reporter - 15.10.1976, commented
POST Johannesburg - 28.6.1980, 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. 32/33
Note:
It is not known if the work still exists - last contact with owner was in 2001
