Guitar III ,2008
Provenance : Private collection, Cape Town.
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Notes : Widely known as one of South Africa’s leading resistance artists, Willie Bester makes mixed media works using scrap materials such as discarded car parts – usually acquired from local dumps.
His mixed media paintings, canvas assemblages and metal sculptures are housed in many private, corporate, and public collections in South Africa and abroad including Zeitz MOCCA in Cape Town, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington and The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art in Geneva. In 1992 he was awarded the Prix De L'Aigle, 4th Grand Prix International D'Arts Plastiques de la Vlille de Nice, France and in 2004 the Order of the Disa, Members Class from the South Africa Government.
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