Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

499 Sydney Alex KUMALO SOUTH AFRICAN 1 935-1988 Mask signed terracotta height: 35,5cm R140 000–180 000 cf. Elza Miles. (2004) Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre , Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation. Similar examples are illustrated on pages 84 and 85. In the early 1960s, Kumalo sculpted three terracotta heads, two of which are dehumanised masks [figs. 103, 104]. These heads are constructed in a cubist fashion using volumes and geometric shapes […] Elza Miles, page 88. 246