Lucas SITHOLE
1931 - 1994
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Unfinished works as recorded
As rightful copyright holders to all works by Lucas SITHOLE, The Haenggi Foundation Inc. in Johannesburg arranged for all works then known to exist, both finished and unfinished, to be collected from the artist's home in Kwa-Thema and his second house near Pongola. The works from Kwa-Thema were first stored in Mr Martin C. Gishen's office who had been the family lawyer and the Estate's executor.
The help of well-known art historian, Dr. Elza Miles from Johannesburg, was then enlisted to collect and record all unfinished works from Lucas SITHOLE's last home near Pongola and from the office of the Estate's lawyer.
These were then displayed at the premises formerly occupied by Gallery 21, Victory House, Harrison Street, Johannesburg, for one day during July 1994; the Pretoria Art Museum chose half of the items, the remainder were then donated to the University of Fort Hare.
Images of all the unfinished works as recorded by Dr Elza Miles will be available shortly, on request. A few can be seen in the background of the image showing some of the works on display at the Pretoria Art Museum.
Additional unfinished works by Lucas SITHOLE discovered at Kwa-Thema in 2005
In 2005, Johannes Buti Sithole, the eldest son of Lucas T. Sithole, who lives in the family house at Kwa-Thema, found 6 hitherto unknown works buried under the rubble in the garden. One was a bronze of a Mother and Child, the others were 5 heads, of which three were in wood, two in sand stone, all unfinished or reworked, mostly unsigned. The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, was authorised to sell the one bronze recorded under LS7003.3, properly repaired, but not the others being part of the Estate and intended for a museum.
A list of these 5 works will be put up shortly - the unfinished items can be seen on the web (request link).