Gerard Sekoto: Woman wearing a scarf - SOLD
Sekoto, Gerard (1913 - 1993)
Woman wearing a scarf - 1961
Oil on canvas board
65 x 55 cm
Signed and dated bottom right
Sold - 2016
Sekoto inscribed a 1960 ball-point pen drawing of the South-African singer extraordinaire, Miriam Makeba: ‘Inspiration – Miriam Makeba’. Recently deceased (2008), she was ‘Mama Afrika’ to the world and an anti-racist activist till the end – always supporting and identifying with the downtrodden and the disenfranchised. Both Lesley Spiro and Barbara Lindop are of the opinion that it is most probable that this drawing provided the inspiration for Sekoto’s series of ‘Blue Heads’.
Lesley Spiro, Gerard Sekoto: Unsevered Ties, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1989,
pp 54 to 56 and 89
Barbara Lindop, Gerard Sekoto, Randburg, 1988, pp 212 and 213
ILLUSTRATED
Song for Sekoto - Gerard Sekoto 1913 - 2013, WAM Exhibition catalogue,
The Gerard Sekoto Foundation, Johannesburg, 2013, pg 70