Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

247 632 George Pemba SOUTH AFRICAN 1912-2001 Flight to Basutoland signed and dated 60; inscribed ‘Fleeing’and ‘”The Flight”(to Basutoland)’on the reverse and further inscribed with the artist’s name and title on a South African National Gallery label adhered to the reverse oil on artist’s board 48,5 by 39cm R250 000 - 350 000 PROVENANCE Everard Read, Johannesburg, 11 March 1992. Private Collection. EXHIBITED Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, The George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba Retrospective Exhibition , 27 April to 28 July, 1996, catalogue number 75, illustrated on page 102, number 20, of the exhibition catalogue. LITERATURE Sarah Huddleston (1996) Against All Odds: George Pemba: His Life and Words , Jeppestown, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 115. “Painted after the Sharpeville riots in 1960, this image of a woman fleeing to Basutoland from the security police, is evocative of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt to escape Herod.” 1 1. Sarah Huddleston (1996) Against All Odds: George Pemba: His Life and Words , Jeppestown, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers (Pty) Limited, page 115.