Gerard Sekoto: Paris street scene - SOLD

Gerard Sekoto
Paris street scene
Oil on canvas
55 x 33 cm
Signed and dated bottom right
Sold - 2013

Sekoto was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain-de-Prés in Paris in the 1950s and ‘60s, where all the regulars would recognise him as a musician because of his performances in the bar-restaurants of the area. Sekoto enjoyed frequenting the places where he knew the patrons and the owners, which with his exhibitions from time to time, became his public face in Paris. The familiarity of the locals and the area meant that he felt settled and at home in his new milieu, leading to a number of paintings of bar-restaurants, the Seine, and street scenes.

Talking about the use of light in these paintings he was to say: This part of Paris was close to the street where I used to live in. The light is used as part of construction - to elongate and give rhythm. With light and shade.

Provenance:
Yann le Moul, Paris, France, 2008

Bibliography:
Barbara Lindop, Gerard Sekoto, Randburg, 1988, p 245
N Chabani Manganyi, Gerard Sekoto: ‘I am an African’, Johannesburg, 2004, pp106 and 115

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