Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

83 EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 117 DUMISANI MABASO SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– Untitled signed, dated 10, numbered 1/1 in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin monotype sheet size: 144 by 106 cm; image size: 111,5 by 86 cm R15 000 – 20 000 Dumisani Mabaso was born in 1955 in Soweto and died in 2013. He was a painter, printmaker, musician, and a key figure in the South African print scene. Towards the end of his life, he established a printmaking workshop at the William Humphrey’s Art Gallery in Kimberly. The workshop was called the Sguzu Printmaker’s Workshop. As the son of a commercial printer, Mabaso was exposed to the world of printing presses, paper and ink from a young age. In the 1970’s he studied art at the Mofolo Arts Centre. Mabaso took a turn away from the commercial world of printing and began exploring the possibilities of original prints during his time at Rorkes Drift where he completed a course in printmaking. In the early 1980’s he was the head of the Fine Art Department at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA), and continued studying printmaking at the Witwatersrand Technikon. In the early 2000’s he worked as a print technician and mentor in the Pro Shop at Artist Proof Studio.