Gerard Sekoto South African 1913–1993 Jan Gerard Sekoto, born in Botshabelo in the Eastern Transvaal (now Bophuthatswana).Jan Gerard Sekoto was a pioneering South African artist and jazz musician, recognised for his role in urban Black art and modernism. His childhood interest in drawing developed into a practice shaped by coloured pencils and later by life in Sophiatown, District Six and Eastwood. His paintings captured township communities and tensions, preserving scenes from neighbourhoods later demolished. After studying at Grace Dieu, he taught until 1939, when an art competition helped launch his professional career in Johannesburg; Judith Gluckman and Alexis Preller encouraged his oil painting. Sekoto moved to Paris in 1947 as apartheid intensified, working as both painter and jazz pianist. He never returned to South Africa, but continued revisiting earlier subjects and exploring new ones. Barbara Lindop’s research and correspondence helped expand recognition of his work later in life, and her book recounts his story with colour plates. Sekoto received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and, posthumously in 2003, South Africa’s Order of Ikhamanga (Gold). His works are held in major institutions in South Africa and beyond.
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BLACKTwo Friends. Lithographic Print, 36cm x 29cm excluding frame, 58,5cm x 50cm including frame. Framed.
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