Gerard Sekoto   (South Africa, 1913-1993)
Self-portrait

1947
Oil on canvas board
45.7 x 35.6cm
Dated on the reverse '14.10.47'
Provenance Acquired from the artist by Mr J Zurnamer, by descent; Bonhams, London, 9 May 2006 (150); Michael Stevenson and Johans Borman
Illustrated 'RK Cope, 'South Africa: Contemporary painting and sculpture', The Studio, 136 (668), November 1948, p138; Barbara Lindop, Gerard Sekoto, Johannesburg, 1988, pp126-127; Barbara Lindop, The Art of Gerard Sekoto, London, 1995, p44; Gerard Sekoto, My Life and Work, Johannesburg, 1995, illustrated on the cover. According to Sekoto's recollections (in Lindop, p35), this work is also reproduced in an (unidentified) article in Time Magazine in 1949.


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