LUCAS SITHOLE

LS7101 Lucas SITHOLE "Wounded Buffalo", 1971 - Bronze 1/1 - approx. 150 cm high

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:

Youtube

 

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

 

 

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