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FULL BLOOM: Spring 22 Collection
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Pitika Ntuli (South Africa 1942-)
Figure
bronze
Location: Johannesburg
Condition Report
The overall condition is good.
Minor surface dirt in crevices.
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bronze
Location: Johannesburg
(1)
73 x 10 x 9 cm excluding base; 74 x 20 x 20 cm including base
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg
Notes:
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit art students on Feenix.org, an online fundraising platform that connects students and communities to fundraise towards achieving debt-free tertiary education.
Pitika Ntuli was born in 1942 in Springs and grew up in Witbank in Mpumalanga. While a teacher, artist and critical thinker living under the threat of apartheid in the sixties and seventies, Ntuli was forced into exile in Swaziland and arrested and made a political prisoner until 1978, when international pressure forced his release to the UK.
Having already completed an MFA at Pratt Institute in New York in 1977, he finished an MA at Brunel University in London, in 1985 after which he lectured art at various international and South African universities including; Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Wits University. He was an artist in residence in the 1980s and ‘90s at schools and colleges in London.
His works grace numerous important corporate, private – such as Paul Simon, USA, and Akufo Addo, Ghana - and public collections such as the African American Institute, New York, USA and Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, SA.
He was awarded the Arts and Culture Trust – Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and the City of Johannesburg named him a ‘Living Legend’ in 2012.
A national tour of Ntuli’s Azibuyele Emasisweni, which will show at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in October and then the Durban Art Gallery in March 2023 curated by Ruzy Rusike, will give the public a chance to appreciate his 40 new and extraordinary works.
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Auction: FULL BLOOM: Spring 22 Collection, ending 1st Nov, 2022
Collectors can browse new contemporary artists from Africa in New Frontiers (lots 1-72) or turn to old favourites in Traditional Classics (lots 73-102). They can explore, The Shape of Things in sculptural works (lots 103-119) and investigate abstract form in works True to Form (lots 104-137). Editioned works are highlighted in works Set in Print (lots 135-194) and photography features in Snapshots (195-200).
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