Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

181 445 446 445 Bruce Arnott SOUTH AFRICAN 1938-2018 Betrothal Pair signed with the artist’s initials and numbered 2/6 on the base bronze mounted on a sandblasted perspex base height: 33,5cm each, excluding base; base 2,5cm (2) R  –   446 Sydney Kumalo SOUTH AFRICAN 1935-1988 Reclining Nude II signed bronze height: 7cm; width 34cm R  –   EXHIBITED Grosvenor Gallery, London, 12 July to 6 August 1966, catalogue number 8. Camden Art Centre, London, Contemporary African Art , 10 August to 6 September 1969. Reclining Nude II was made specifically by Kumalo for Grosvenor Gallery and together with Reclining Nude I was one of the first two Kumalo sculptures exhibited in the United Kingdom. It was cast by Fiorini and Carney in London. The sculptures were not numbered by Grosvenor Gallery but their records show that 9 of the edition of 10 were cast.