LUCAS SITHOLE

LS9303 Lucas SITHOLE "Head in green" ("a large head"), 1993 - Wood with copper oxide patina - 057x029x039 cm

LS9303

"Head in green" ("a large head"), 1993 - wood with copper oxide patina - 057x029x039 cm

 

Collection:

Ellerman House Collection, Bantry Bay, Cape Town

 

Provenance:

First owner acquired work in December 1993, directly from Lucas Sithole in Pongola who was then very sick.

 

Work auctioned:

Sotheby's Johannesburg - 12th May, 2003 - Lot 529

 

Work illustrated:

Sotheby's Johannesburg - 12th May, 2003 - Lot 529, cat. p. 99, ill.

 

Work on web:

www.artvault.co.za - Ellerman House Collection - 2008

 

 

Note:

The sculpture is unfinished, signed "L T Sith" (note the incomplete signature!) - it seems the first owner demanded a security for monies personally advanced to the then very sick artist before he had finished and polished this sculpture (telephonic conversation of 4.8.1994). This was Lucas SITHOLE's last sculpture before he died from cancer in Jozini in May, 1994.

 

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