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Landmark
Gerard Sekoto
1913 – 1993
The founding figure of Black South African modernism
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Why they are here
He painted township life as ordinary life, then left for Paris in 1947 and never came back.
Gerard Sekoto was a South African painter and a central figure in the Black modernist movement of twentieth-century South Africa.
In 1947 he left for Paris in self-imposed exile, seeking to establish himself at what he took to be the centre of the art world, and remained there for the rest of his life.
In 1947 he left for Paris in self-imposed exile, seeking to establish himself at what he took to be the centre of the art world, and remained there for the rest of his life.
- South African History Online — List of South African artists in exile
- Zeitz MOCAA — A Protea Is Not a Flower
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