Strauss & co - 10 November 2014, Johannesburg

192 236 George Mnyaluza Milwa PEMBA south african 1912–2001 The Angry Gamtoos River signed and dated 94; inscribed with the title on a gallery label adhered to the reverse oil on canvas 49 by 59,5 cm R120 000–160 000 exhibited The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, George Pemba Retrospective Exibition , 1996, catlogue number 123 literature Huddleston, Sarah. (1996) George Pemba: Against All Odds , Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. Illustrated in colour on page 153. notes ‘This work is among Pemba’s most imaginative works which he painted after reading in the newspaper how the Gamtoos River near Port Elizabeth came down in flood carrying with it the dead bodies of both animals and people. Jacqueline Nolte in her essay Sources and Style in the Oil Paintings of George Milwa Mnwaluza Pemba published in the South African National Gallery’s 1996 catalogue of a retrospective exhibition on Pemba describes the work as Pemba’s ultimate commitment to imaginative production rather than to historical production …’ . Huddleston, Sarah. (1996) George Pemba: Against All Odds , Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. Page 153.