LUCAS SITHOLE

SITHOLE LS8703 "Peace to the World" ("Happiness to the World") ("Christus Figur"), 1987 - Indigenous wood from Zululand - 195x038x022 cm

SITHOLE LS8703 (close-up) "Peace to the World" ("Happiness to the World") ("Christus Figur"), 1987 - Indigenous wood from Zululand - 195x038x022 cm

LS8703

"Peace to the World" ("Happiness to the World") ("Christus Figur"), 1987 - Indigenous wood from Zululand - 195x038x022 cm

Collection:

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Lucas SITHOLE "Christus Figur" 1987 - Andachtssaal des Konsistoriums der Evangelischen Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg (Bild: Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz, Berlin)

Konsistorium der Evangelischen Kirche, D-Berlin-Brandenburg (Andachtssaal)

Provenance:

Gallery 21, Johannesburg

Work exhibited:

Gallery 21, Johannesburg - 1987 cat. X17

Work reproduced:

Gallery 21 Johannesburg - Lucas Sithole invitation card Oct. 1987, ill.

Weekly Mail Johannesburg 16.10.1987, ill.  - Gallery 21 advert

Gallery 21 Johannesburg - June 1988 overseas price-list, cat. + ill.

BROCHURE issued by EKB, Berlin 1989, commented +ill.

SITHOLE LS8703 (close-up) "Peace to the World" ("Happiness to the World") ("Christus Figur"), 1987 - Indigenous wood from Zululand - 195x038x022 cm

LS8703

Still from the video "Black Art"  produced by Etienne de Villiers, SABC, for "Collage", 1987

Press review:

Financial Mail Johannesburg - 23.10.1987, commented

Beeld Johannesburg 28.10.1987, commented

Our Art4 Ons Kuns (F.E.S.T., Pretoria), 1993, commented

Artist's Legend

"It is a sacrifice I made to my Heavenly Father - an Offering I had to make, so that you, your brothers and sisters and your lovely children could share happiness, joy and peace in this World, because now your sins have been washed away."

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