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Dan RAKGOATHE

Dan RAKGOATHE "Cosmic Trinity", 1974 - original linocut 9/50 - 36.5x36.5 cm (PELMAMA)

"Cosmic Trinity", 1974 - original linocut 9/50 - 36.5x36.5 cm

PELMAMA Register AAMC DRAK 74/02

 


 

Work acquired in 1990 by

Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg

as part of the original PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection

 

Provenance:

The Haenggi Foundation Inc., Johannesburg

Gallery 21, Johannesburg

 

Work exhibited:

Gallery 21, Johannesburg - Dan Rakgoathe Retrospective Exhibition 1968-1989 ("Behold the mystic sign") (90 works) - 1989

 

Work listed:

Gallery 21, Johannesburg - Dan Rakgoathe Retrospective Exhibition 1989, cat. 90

 

Work illustrated:

Fort Hare Papers, Vol. 7, No. 2, Oct. 1980 - p. 107, Pl. 2

 

Legend (per Fort Hare Papers):

"In Cosmic Trinity we have three figures tightly knit together and all united to a central disc symbolizing and representing the universe or cosmos. They are attached to this central disc by vein-like tendrils and they seem to feed on this, thus the cosmos. The thee figures represent the three basic cosmic forces, birth, death and awareness; forces that cannot be separated from one another but which must be seen as a united entity, a trinity."

 


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