LUCAS SITHOLE

SITHOLE LS6301 "The wounded leopard", 1963 Ironwood and liquid steel - 31x48x45 cm (img Clive Hassall 2011)

LS6301.0

"The wounded leopard" ("Wounded leopard"), 1963 - Ironwood and liquid steel - 031x048x045 cm

 

Provenance:

Priv. Collection, Johannesburg

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 auctioned:

Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - 11th November 2013 - Lot 234 - realised ZAR477'456 incl. comm (CHF 42'150)

 

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.

"Visual Century: South African Art in Context" (Lize van Robbroeck) Volume 2 1945-1976 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press) (2011), ill. and mentioned on pp. 154+155

Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - 11th November 2013 - cat. p.172/3, Lot 234, ill.

"Review 2013" - Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - cat. p. 58, ill. p. 59

 

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:

SITHOLE LS6301 bronze 2/4 (f.v.) (Private coll. Los Angeles CA)  SITHOLE LS6301 bronze 2/4 (b.v.) (Private coll. Los Angeles CA)

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Work LS6301.2 is listed in „Sydney Kumalo and other Bantu artists of the Transvaal“ by Susanna Jansen van Rensburg (unpublished M.A. degree thesis handed in to Prof.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:

Lucas SITHOLE LS6301 - 2nd series SIGNED - close-up of cast at Gallery 101 Johannesburg in 1968

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.

Lucas SITHOLE LS6301 - Variation on 2nd series - UNSIGNED

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

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