LUCAS SITHOLE   

LS6902 Lucas SITHOLE "Mother and child", 1968-1969 - Rhodesian teak - 104x020x036 cm (img Strauss 2011)

LS6902

"Mother and child", 1968/1969 - Rhodesian teak with green copper oxide patina - 104x020x036 cm

 

  LS6902 Lucas SITHOLE "Mother and child", 1968-1969 (close-up of head)   

LS6902 Lucas SITHOLE "Mother and child", 1968-1969 (close-up of mother + child)

Close-ups of LS6902

 

Provenance:

Coll. Jeremy Stephen Antiques, Johannesburg - 2011

Priv. Collection, South Africa/U.K.

Gallery 101 Johannesburg

 

Work exhibited:

Gallery 101 Johannesburg 1969

SITHOLE Retrospective Exhibitions held at

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

 

Work on auction

Strauss & Co. Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 7th November, 2011 - Lot 336 - realised ZAR557'000 / CHF63'400

Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 2nd July, 2011 - Lot PX - realised ZAR260'000 / CHF30'800

 

Work illustrated:

Artlook Johannesburg - March 1969, p.7, ill.

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 29.11.1969, ill.

Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - 7th November, 2011 catalogue p. 222, Lot 336

http://louiseniemann.blogspot.ch/2012/06/virtual-art-fund-launch-of-mayo-moon.html

 

Press Review:

Rapport, Johannesburg - 2.9.1979, commented

 

Work listed:

Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - p. 224

 

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. 24/25

 

Note:

This work is signed and dated 1968, one of the very few sculptures the artist dated!

 

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