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Alfred Thoba b. 1951, Johannesburg (Sophiatown) During the apartheid era, Alfred Thoba was living illegally in a small garage in Johannesburg, painting at night with the aid of a paraffin lamp. He was forced to transport his paintings from hiding place to hiding place, in fear of the police uncovering his politically-charged work. Following the Soweto Riots of 1976 a subject that inspired one of Thoba’s best-known and most controversial paintings artists decided it was ti...Continue reading

The Ndebele are a cultural group living in northeast South Africa in an area called the Transvaal or KwaNdebele, northeast of the capitol, Pretoria. They were originally part of the migration of Bantu cultural groups from Central and East Africa into southernmost Africa around 300-400 AD. The Ndundza branch of the Ndebele (who primarily do the beadwork) were defeated by Boer (Dutch) settlers in 1885, and for five years were slaves on Boer farms. Freedom came in 1890, but to t...his day the Ndundza have been dependent on Boer farmers for work. The Dutch took all the good farmland and the Ndebele were left landless. They suffered much during apartheid and this undoubtedly affected their beadwork. Ivor Powell (1995:108) wrote, "As the Ndebele are concerned, the demonstrable history of beadworking goes back only as far as the second half of the nineteenth century, when Europeans bearing beads of Czechoslovokian origin penetrated the hinterland and came into contact with people living in present day Transvaal."

Roy Ndinisa’s creates woodblocks which are flat compositions using symbols, highly stylized figures, and decorative patterns.His two major themes include his concern for the preservation of tribal, traditional life and his fear that assimilation is taking place in the urbanized African living a Westernised lifestyle in the townships.

Jim Dine was born in 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at night at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school and then attended the University of Cincinnati, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ohio University, Athens, from which he received his B.F.A. in 1957. Dine moved to New York in 1959 and soon became a pioneer creator of ‘Happenings' together with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Whitman. Dine is one of the most signifi...cant artists of his generation and has had numerous solo exhibitions in museums in Europe and the United States. In 1970 the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organized a major retrospective of his work, and in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented a retrospective of his etchings. He is also one of the most naturally gifted printmakers working today and more recently he has had print retrospectives at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée, Belgium. See more

David Hockney-"Coloured Flowers Made of Paper and Ink" Lithograph 1971

Honoured to sponsor Chai Lifeline fundraising event- pictures by Julian Liknaitzky

Marini Marini Lithograph "From Colour to Form"

Sponsored and photographed Chai Lifeline event. Congrats to a very worthy cause!

New Acquisition-William Kentridge "Scribble Cat"