Gerard Sekoto (South African, 1913-1993) The musicians; Boy wearing a cap one 9.5 x 14cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/2in), the other 19 x 16.5cm (7.5 x 6.5 in) unframed
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Notes : Sekoto was a musician as well as a visual artist. The first years in Paris were hard, and Sekoto was employed as a pianist at l'Echelle de Jacob (Jacob's ladder), a nightclub that had reopened for business after World War II. Here he played jazz and sang popular French songs of the period. Music became the way that he could pay his living and art school expenses.Between 1956 and 1960, several of Sekoto's own compositions were published by Les Editions Musicales, on which he played piano and sang. He composed 29 songs, mostly excessively poignant, recalling the loneliness of exile, yet displaying the inordinate courage of someone battling to survive in a foreign cultural environment."My music was mainly Negro spiritual, South African melodies and improvisations of jazz music" (the artist, as quoted in Lindop 1988, p.27). BIBLIOGRAPHY:B. Lindop, Gerard Sekoto, (Randburg, 1988)
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