Helene Love-Allotey
Head of Department
Lot 21
Gerard Sekoto(South African, 1913-1993)The morning ride
2 May 2019, 14:00 EDT
New YorkUS$40,000 - US$60,000
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Gerard Sekoto (South African, 1913-1993)
The morning ride
signed 'G Sekoto' (lower right)
oil on canvas
64.8 x 81cm (25 1/2 x 31 7/8in).
signed 'G Sekoto' (lower right)
oil on canvas
64.8 x 81cm (25 1/2 x 31 7/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Acquired by descent.
Private collection, USA.
The above work dates from the early years of Sekoto's exile in Paris. He had arrived in the city in 1947 having left South Africa early that year, never to return.
Initially he was too poor to buy materials to paint and only survived by playing the piano in bars and bistros. But eventually he managed to hold his first solo exhibition in 1949 at Galérie Else-Clausse and following a favourable review in Time magazine his life improved.
A similar work depicting children riding horses can be seen behind the artist in the image from the 1955 Galerie Reflets de Paris exhibition in Vichy. The theme was one that Sekoto returned to many times and six works of a similar title with dates from 1955 to 1970 have been sold in these rooms.
