LUCAS SITHOLE
LS6301.0
"The wounded leopard" ("Wounded leopard"), 1963 - Ironwood and liquid steel - 031x048x045 cm
Provenance:
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg
Work exhibited:
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg - 1966
SITHOLE Retrospective Exhibitions held at
Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg + Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria 1979
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg ("Images of Wood"), 1989
Work illustrated:
Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - p. 31
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg ("Images of Wood") - 1989 cat. p. 165, ill.
Press review:
The Star, Johannesburg - 15th April, 1966, commented ("the leopard whirling round in snarling fury")
The Star, Johannesburg - 20.8.1979, commented
Transvaler, Johannesburg - 21.8.1979, commented
Vaderland, Johannesburg - 23.8.1979, commented
It appears that the Adler Fielding Galleries made two series of bronze casts - both signed plus some unsigned casts of the one edition!.
Series I. - rough texture
4 bronze casts made by the Adler Fielding Galleries, bearing the artist's signature at the bottom of the belly:
LS6301.2 - Private coll., Los Angeles CA
Signed cast 2/4 was acquired by first owner from the Adler Fielding Galleries on 20.2.1967 and temporarily loaned to the Durban Art Gallery, Durban as from July, 1967. The owner by descent holds documentation from the AFG relating to it.
Refer also:
Work LS6301.2 is listed in „Sydney Kumalo and other Bantu artists of the Transvaal“ by Susanna Jansen van Rensburg (unpublished M.A. degree thesis handed in to Prof. Dr. F.G.E. Nilant, Dept. History of Art, University of Pretoria) (1968/69) – Cast 2/4 is listed under cat. 180 (6)
Casts 1/4, 3/4 and 4/4 - present whereabouts unknown
Series II. - smooth surface
An unknown number of casts of Series II were made by the Adler Fielding Galleries, bearing the artist's signature at the bottom of the belly:
This is a close-up of a SIGNED smooth cast shown at Gallery 101 Johannesburg in 1968 - edition and whereabouts unknown
This cast is listed in „Sydney Kumalo and other Bantu artists of the Transvaal“ by Susanna Jansen van Rensburg (unpublished M.A. degree thesis handed in to Prof. Dr. F.G.E. Nilant, Dept. History of Art, University of Pretoria) (1968/69) – this signed cast is listed under cat. 180 (6), stated to be signed "L. Sithole"
VARIATION on Series II. - smooth surface
An UNSIGNED unnumbered cast of Series II. was on auction at Bonham's New Bond Street London on 14th October, 2009 - Lot 112 and being unsold was offered again unsuccessfully at Bonham's Knightsbridge on 23rd March, 2010 - Lot 36, at a much reduced estimate.
LS6301.Series II. - ex Private coll., New York NY
This cast is illustrated in Bonham's New Bond Street, London - Sale 16848 - Lot 112 - cat. p. 126 - it is NOT SIGNED
This cast is again illustrated in Bonham's Knightsbridge London - Sale 17941 - Lot 36 - cat. p. 38 - it is NOT SIGNED