Strauss & co - 13 November 2017, Johannesburg

226 308 Moses Tladi SOUTH AFRICAN 1903–1959 Two Hillocks signed, inscribed with the artist’s name and title on an Iziko South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse oil on board 19 by 24 cm R25 000 – 40 000 EXHIBITED Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Moses Tladi Unearthed , 24 September 2015 – 14 March 2016. Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, Moses Tladi Unearthed , 15 March 2017 – 16 July 2017. LITERATURE Angela Read Lloyd (2009). The Artist in the Garden: The Quest for Moses Tladi , Print Matters: Noordhoek. Illustrated in colour on page 251. Described by Howard Pim, one-time Mayor of Johannesburg, as a ‘Native genius’as early as 1928, Moses Tladi, perhaps this country’s first black landscape painter in the traditional, realist mode, and the first to formally exhibit at the South African National Gallery, has remained largely and sadly unappreciated since his death in 1959. Recently, however, thanks to a nationally touring retrospective of his work, appropriately titled Moses Tladi Unearthed , the quality and drama of his intimate landscapes are back in the public eye. Bearing in mind that he shared his highveld landscape with JH Pierneef, Erich Mayer and Gerard Sekoto, to name only a few of his continued on page 227