Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

21 7 Richard Mudariki ZIMBABWEAN/SOUTH AFRICAN 1985– From Parow to Cape Town signed and dated 13; signed, dated and inscribed with the title on the reverse oil on canvasboard 76 by 60,5 cm R40 000 – 60 000 PROVENANCE Donated by the artist. The proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Greatmore Studios Trust. ITEM NOTES Mentored by painters Allen Kupeta and Helen Lieros in Zimbabwe, Richard Mudariki moved to Cape Town in 2011 and has steadily achieved prominence despite shunning the neo-expressionist theatricality associated with recent Zimbabwean painting. In 2018 he completed a two-month residency at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, where his work also fea- tured on the survey exhibition, Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era . An allegorical painter interested in recording the temperament of his times, Mudariki’s figurative paintings liberally quote from art history while referencing contemporary politics. This lot dates from a period when he reinterpreted works by Géricault and Goya, using techniques redolent of Ben Enwonwu and Zwelethu Mthethwa, to comment on current predicaments. It records an unspec- tacular scene translated from life: the artist’s passage by bus into the city from his home in Parow. A compan- ion work, From Town to Table View (2013), describes the behaviour of passengers on the bus. Sean O’Toole GREATMORE STUDIOS TRUST LOTS 1–8