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Ngatane, Ephraim

Born: 1938 Lesotho
Died: 1971 Johannesburg

A painter of township scenes, genre and abstract pictures.  Worked in watercolour, gouache, charcoal and later in oil.

Studies: 1952-54 Polly Street Art Centre, Johannesburg under Cecil Skotnes; 1954-56 in Johannesburg under Hall Duncan, an American missionary. 

Profile: Came to Johannesburg in 1942.  Taught at the Jubilee Centre and in the late 1950s started his own art school.  An accomplished alto saxophonist.

Exhibitions:   Participated in group exhibitions from 1960 in SA and internationally; 1962 Johannesburg, first of several solo exhibitions; 1965 Piccadilly Gallery, London, African Painters and Sculptors from Johannesburg; 1979 Contemporary African Art in SA, touring; 1981 Standard Bank, Soweto, Black Art Today.

Represented: Johannesburg Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; Sandton Municipal Collection; University

of Fort Hare; University of the Witwatersrand; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.

Public Commissions: With other members of the Polly Street Art Centre, murals in St. Mary’s Church in Orlando, Transvaal, in 1958 and the Mooki Memorial School in Orlando, Transvaal in 1969.

References: SAA; SESA; SASP; BSAK 1; SA Art; AASA; Artlook January 1969; SA Panorama June 1969

Oil on Board 79x 109 cm
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