"Gerard Sekoto - From the Paris Studio"
2005-12-06 until 2005-12-27
Iziko-SA National Gallery
Cape Town, , ZA

On 6 December, the long-awaited exhibition "Gerard Sekoto - From the Paris Studio" opens at Iziko SA National Gallery. On Sunday 11 December, Friends of SA National Gallery host a walkabout of the exhibition which covers different periods in the artist's life - from his early teaching years, his life in apartheid South Africa, his visit to Senegal and the time spent in Paris where he lived in voluntary exile from 1947.

In 2000, the Gallery received a donation of over 2000 items from Sekoto's Paris studio and these included paintings, drawings and prints as well as memorabilia and photographs of an artist considered to be the pioneer of urban black art and social realism.

Included in the exhibition are works by artists who knew Sekoto such as Gregoire Boonzaier, Peter Clarke, Solly Disner, Lippy Lipshitz, Ernest Mancoba and Louis Maurice.

IMAGE
Gerard Sekoto
Portrait of Manuel's cousin, 1944,
pencil on paper

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