3rd Nov, 2019 10:00
Modern & Contemporary Art
10
George Pemba
Donkey cart
oil on canvas board
Artwork date: 1962
Signature details: signed and dated bottom left
Sold for R204,840
Estimated at R150,000 - R250,000
Condition Report
The overall condition is good. Minor surface dirt and fly specks.
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oil on canvas board
Artwork date: 1962
Signature details: signed and dated bottom left
(1)
36 x 45 cm
Notes:
George Pemba is one of the most important 20th century black modernist artists in South Africa, approaching the status of a national treasure. He is one of the artists most typical of the under-represented generations of black artists neglected in the South African art establishment in the second half of the twentieth century who have come to critical and collector attention in the decades since. Born in the Eastern Cape, and commencing a storied career as a full-time artist in the 1940s, he spent the entirety of his long life in South Africa.His career is primarily marked by a post-expressionist social realist approach to subject matter. Indeed, unusually for a black artist, Pemba made working trips around the country to make observational studies of the everyday lives of South African black people. While his early watercolours of the 1940s especially are ranked among his most prized works, his shift, apparently due to the instigation of Gerard Sekoto, to the medium of oil in the later decades of the twentieth century makes his oil paintings perhaps more recognisable now. This rural scene, of a donkey cart with an entourage in its wake, probably on its way to a local funeral or church service, bears all the hallmarks of Pemba’s keen sense of social observation.
James Sey
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 3rd Nov, 2019
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