Review 2011

Five Wives carved, painted and incised wood panel 84 by 136,5cm Sold R401 040, September 2011 Lucky Sibiya The most distinctive features of his maturing style were his consistent use of large, simple, organic shapes (figurative and abstract) which are linked and often intersected by rhythmical flowing lines; and the contrasting characteristic whereby he filled the negative areas between these planimetric forms with intricate, decorative patterning. Esmé Berman, Art & Artists of South Africa , A A Balkema, Cape Town and Rotterdam, 1983, page 423. 60