Ezrom LEGAE
"Head of a wise man", 1969 - bronze 2/5 - 36x16x20 cm
PELMAMA Register MAMS ELEG 69/01
Work first acquired by exchange on final dispersal of part of the original PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection
Bronze 2/5 exhibited:
Smac Art Gallery, Stellenbosch - Collections 2 - September, 2007
Michael Stevenson Fine Arts, Cape Town (South African art 1848 - now) - December, 2005
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg - April 2005
Johannesburg Art Gallery 1988 (The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of S.A. Art (1930-1988))
Bronze 2/5 illustrated:
Johannesburg Art Gallery 1988 (The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of S.A. Art (1930-1988)), cat. p. 52
Lantern, Pretoria, Vol. 38, Aug. 1989, p. 50
Bronze 2/5 shown on website of:
Smac Art Gallery, Stellenbosch - Collections 2, cat. 10 - September 2007, ill. col.
Michael Stevenson Fine Arts, Cape Town - "South African art 1848 - now" - December 2005, ill. col.
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg - "Recent Acquisitions" - April 2005, ill. col.
Another view of "Head of a wise man", 1969 - bronze 2/5 - 36x16x20 cm
Provenance:
Michael Stevenson Fine Arts, Cape Town - 2005
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Coll. "R.B.", Johannesburg
The Haenggi Foundation Inc., Johannesburg
Gallery 21, Johannesburg
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Note:
The Haenggi Foundation Inc. acquired the right to the following additional bronze casts of this "Head" - A/P I/I and ed. 5/5 (tripartite agreement of 13.2.1985, between Goodman Gallery, Ezrom Legae and Gallery 21). However it had no intention to have them cast.
Cast 1/5 - whereabouts unknown
Cast 3/5 was acquired by the Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, in January, 1989
Signature and cast number of bronze 3/5 at OAM
Cast 4/5 was acquired by private coll. "NM", Pretoria, in 1990
Bronze 4/5 was shown on website of:
Sotheby's Johannesburg - OPAL - 27/28th March, 2006 - Lot 394, ill., listed as "Head of a Wiseman", ed. 4/5
Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg - "Sculptures" - Sept. 2005, ill. (ed. 4/5)
Provenance:
Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg - 2005
Coll. "NM", Pretoria
Gallery 21, Johannesburg
Original terracotta from which the casts were made, per 2015 in the Legae family collection (img. ©)
All were cast by Renzo Vignali, Pretoria - Egon Guenther maintained a Master Registry of Ezrom Legae's SA casts, however incomplete. There are inconsistencies listed by different galleries as to edition sizes well as in the names of the work, e.g. "Head", "Head, no name" and "Head of a Wiseman" or "Head of a Wise Man"!
This page last updated 3rd February, 2015