21st Apr, 2021 16:00
Autumn Collection
130
Ephraim Ngatane (South Africa 1938-1971)
Penny Whistlers
oil on card|
signed bottom right
Signature details: signed bottom right
oil on card|
signed bottom right
Signature details: signed bottom right
(1)
34.5 x 29 cm; Framed Size: 38.5 x 33 x 4 cm
Notes: The bulk of Ephraim Ngatane’s oeuvre was produced in the period 1959–1969, largely when the artist was in his 20s. He was prolific during this time, often exhibiting more than once almost every year, and predominantly at the Adler Fielding Galleries in Johannesburg. In 1964, the William Humphries Art Gallery in Kimberley became the first of many public museums to acquire his work.
While Ngatane produced work in watercolours and oils throughout his life, watercolours predominate up to the mid-1960s, most likely as a result of his mentorship by Durant Sihlali, first at the Polly Street Art Centre, and then as part of Sihlali’s weekend painters club. Then, as with many exhibiting black artists at the time, he was encouraged and nudged into oils. Fortunately, Ngatane was equally adept in both media, merging and modulating colours, using white lines to emphasise reflected surfaces, and black lines to outline forms in and amongst the maze of colours.
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Auction: Autumn Collection, 21st Apr, 2021
This premier, large-scale, timed, online-only sale presented a wide range of contemporary art alongside more historic works, multiples and editions, photography, sculpture, ceramics and an impressive selection of signed art books for easy collecting.
Leading artists represented in the auction included Marlene Dumas, Jane Alexander and Walter Oltmann together with contemporary voices like Zanele Muholi, Nandipha Mntambo, Athi-Patra Ruga, Blessing Ngobeni, Gerhard Marx, Nicholas Hlobo and Nelson Makamo. Modern stalwarts included John Mohl and Edoardo Villa amongst others. Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky and Roger Ballen led the photography selection while new media works by Wayne Barker, Ed Young, Usha Seejarim and Turiya Magadlela.
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