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
"In 3 dimensions" - Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, 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.
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
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."
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