An impressive offering at Johannesburg Auction Week

This much-anticipated live-virtual auction of modern and contemporary art comprises 84 lots of collectable South African art by revered painters such as Gerard Sekoto and George Pemba.

Museum-grade works by a cohort of pioneer black moderns, including Gerard Bhengu, Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae and Moses Tladi, will open the bidding at Strauss & Co’s premier Evening Sale during Johannesburg Auction Week on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

“We have assembled a fine selection of impressive pictures by pioneering black South African painters, notably Moses Tladi and Gerard Sekoto,” says Dr Alastair Meredith, the head of sales at Strauss & Co. “Moses Tladi was one of the earliest black landscape painters working in a western tradition, and was also the first black artist to formally exhibit a picture in the Iziko South African National Gallery in 1931.

The premier Evening Sale of Johannesburg Auction Week will open with Ezrom Legae’s bronze Head II from the John and Elizabeth Bradley Collection. The Evening Sale includes a total of three bronzes by Legae and two bronzes by Kumalo. Legae’s Lonely Head and Kumalo’s Squat Head are also from the John and Elisabeth Bradley Collection.

High-value lots include Gerard Sekoto’s Children at Play, Eastwood, Pretoria and a 1960 gouache by Peter Clarke depicting a black competitive cyclist .

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