LUCAS SITHOLE

LS7909

"Just a few drops", 1979 - Msimbiti wood - 185x038x049 cm

Collection:

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria

Provenance:

Gallery 21, Johannesburg

Work exhibited:

SITHOLE Retrospective Exhibitions held at

Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg + Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria 1979

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria - "In 3 dimensions" - 10th July - 14th August, 1991

Work reproduced:

Lucas SITHOLE 1958-1979 - ISBN 0 620 03982 5 - p. 219

Beeld, Johannesburg - 20.8.1979, ill.

Three Centuries of South African Art (Fransen) (Donker) 1982, p. 358, ill.

"Bulletin" Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria - Vol. 18 No. 4 October 1984, ill.

Art in Outline (M Huntley) (Oxford University Press), 1992, p.10, ill.

Press review:

Vaderland, Johannesburg - 23.8.1979, commented

Beeld, Johannesburg - 29.8.1979, commented

African Arts Magazine, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, August 1980 review, commented

"Bulletin" Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria - Vol. 18 No. 4 October 1984, pp.35-6, ill. p.40

"Africa Insight" Vol. 14 No 3 1984, text and ill. p. 218

The work as described by the Pretoria Art Museum:

"The grotesque figure of a seated pelican is thin and elongated with the heavy beak pointed upwards. Like other sculptors he often seeks a suggestion of form in the branch or stump of wood that he wants to use. He uses his phantasy and imagination to, as it were, release the form in his found material. This piece is smooth and shiny with a polished surface, whereas many of Sithole's other works have a finely etched textural surface."

Note:

This sculpture is recorded and illustrated in the monograph published in 2015

“Lucas SITHOLE 1931 – 1994: Highlights 1966-1993” – ISBN 978-3-033-04655-9 – on pp. 86/87