Dan RAKGOATHE
"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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