19th Jun, 2024 19:00
20th Century & Contemporary Art
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Blessing Ngobeni (South Africa 1985-)
Died Digging Gold III
oil and collage on unstretched canvas adhered to a stretched canvas
Artwork date: 2018
Signature details: signed and dated bottom right; inscribed with the title on the reverse
Exhibited: Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, 'Blessing Ngobeni: A Note From Error', 15 November 2018 to 15 January 2019.
Condition Report
The overall condition is very good.
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oil and collage on unstretched canvas adhered to a stretched canvas
Artwork date: 2018
Signature details: signed and dated bottom right; inscribed with the title on the reverse
Exhibited: Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, 'Blessing Ngobeni: A Note From Error', 15 November 2018 to 15 January 2019.
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172 x 94 x 5 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Pretoria.
Everard Read, Johannesburg.
COLLECTOR'S NOTE
- The record price for Blessing Ngobeni at auction is R318 640 for the artwork Died, sold at Aspire Art in Johannesburg in 2021.
- Ngobeni was recently announced as a finalist for the 2024 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, exhibiting his selected work at The Norval Foundation.
- Accolades include Standard Bank’s 2020 Young Artist Award; the 2013 Arts and Culture Trust ImpACT Award and the 2011 Reinhold Cassirer Art Award presented by Nadine Gordimer.
- The artist launched the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize, an annual residency supporting young emerging artists, which he sponsors in an attempt to nurture new talent in South Africa.
- Prestigious international art fairs and biennales include the 2019 Venice Art Biennale, EXPO Chicago, PULSE Miami Beach, where he was part of Everard Read’s presentations, Frieze Los Angeles 2024, Art Basel, Miami Beach in 2021 and Frieze New York in 2021.
- His work is included in the Phaidon publication in the P series, Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016).
The artist in front of, Died Digging Gold III at the opening of, Blessing
Ngobeni: A Note From Error, Everard Read Gallery, 2018.
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris and the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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Auction: 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 19th Jun, 2024
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