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Gerard Sekoto
Born(1913-12-09)9 December 1913
Botshabelo, near Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal
Died20 March 1993(1993-03-20) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Known forPainting, Music
Movementurban black, social realism

Gerard Sekoto OIG[1] (9 December 1913 – 20 March 1993), was a South African artist and musician. He is recognised as a pioneer of urban black art and social realism. His work was exhibited in Paris, Stockholm, Venice, Washington, and Senegal, as well as in South Africa.

  1. ^ National Orders awards 2 December 2003

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Johannesburg Art Gallery

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List of South African musicians

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George Pemba

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classes. It was at Maurice van Essche's studio where he met Gerard Sekoto and John Mohl. Sekoto encouraged him to work as a full-time artist and change his...

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List of South African artists

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painter, curator, writer and lecturer George Hallett – photographer Gerard Sekoto – artist and musician Gladys Thomas – poet and playwright Green Vigo...

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List of South Africans

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African Academy annual competitions. By this point he and his friend Gerard Sekoto began to dream of attending art school in Europe, for which they needed...

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Sophiatown

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students under patronage of the Gerard Sekoto Foundation. It shows two children tugging at his cassock as well as Sekoto's famous yellow houses. The entire...

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Constitutional Court of South Africa

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chosen by Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs, including works by Gerard Sekoto, William Kentridge, and Cecil Skotnes. The doors to the Court have the...

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and Woods. Biko was commemorated in several artworks after his death. Gerard Sekoto, a South African artist based in France, produced Homage to Steve Biko...

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Fiona Ramsay

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she directed the theatre musical play Gugu Mzimba - The Spirit of Gerard Sekoto which received critics acclaim. Later she received the Durban award...

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Foreigners Everywhere

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Italy Ana Segovia b. 1991 Mexico City, Mexico lives in Mexico City Gerard Sekoto 1913–1993 Botshabelo, South Africa lived in Nogent-sur-Marne, France...

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1993 in South Africa

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Nortje, cricketer 28 November – Lukhanyo Am, rugby player 20 March – Gerard Sekoto, artist. (b. 1913) 23 March – Edison Ntsanwisi, Chief Minister of Gazankulu...

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Berlin Missionary Society

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Mission Society and Black Europeans: The cases of Klaus Kuhn, Jan Sekoto and Gerard Sekoto Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine Richard Miles: Motswana...

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Pretoria Art Museum

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historian Elza Miles. The South African collection now includes work by Gerard Sekoto and Judith Mason. Since the mid-1990s, the New Signatures competition...

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Skunder Boghossian

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Deaths in March 1993

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Wayne Barker

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Johannesburg 2008 - Heal, UCA gallery, Cape Town 2005 - Land and Desire, Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg 2003 - Lovers and Gurus, Contemporary...

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James Barnor

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1913 in South Africa

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(ANCYL) and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (d. 1993) 9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist. (d. 1993) 12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, commandant...

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