Review 2011

Gerard Sekoto Outside the Shop signed oil on canvas-board 34,5 by 44,5cm Sold R3 119 200, November 2011 Christine Mullen Kreamer, PhD, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution affirms Gerard Sekoto’s international status thus: Gerard Sekoto is a very important figure in the art history of African modernism. He sensitively portrays the dignity of life in black communities in paintings rich with color and infused with a light that seems to glow from within. His works suggest a sense of calm, despite the challenges that this artist must have endured under apartheid. His international reputation was hard-fought and justly earned. Email to Emma Bedford, 13 September 2011. 44