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Ezrom LEGAE

Ezrom LEGAE "Head of a wise man", 1969 - bronze 2/5 - 36x16x20 cm (Img M Stevenson)

"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.

 

Ezrom LEGAE "Head of a wise man" bronze 2/5 - picture from Everard Read website 2005

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

Ezrom LEGAE signature and cast number of bronze 3/5 at OAM

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

 


 

Ezrom LEGAE terracotta of "Head of a wise man" (img.© Strauss &Co., Johannesburg 2015)

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

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