Penny Whistlers ,
Provenance :
Exhibited :
Literature :
Notes : The bulk of Ephraim Ngatane’s oeuvre was produced in the period 1959–1969, largely when the artist was in his 20s. He was prolific during this time, typically exhibiting more than once annually over the period, and predominantly at the Adler Fielding Galleries in Johannesburg. In 1964, the William Humphries Art Gallery in Kimberley became the first of many public museums to acquire his work.While Ngatane produced work in watercolours and oils throughout his life, watercolours predominate up to the mid-1960s, most likely as a result of his mentorship by Durant Sihlali, first at the Polly Street Art Centre, and then as part of Sihlali’s weekend painters club. Then, as with many exhibiting black artists at the time, he was encouraged into oils. Ngatane was equally adept in both media, merging and modulating colours, using white lines to emphasise reflected surfaces, and black lines to outline forms in and amongst the maze of tones and textures.
Condition_report :
