Boy with Bicycle Frame: Water Colour & marker on paper : 45cm x 65cms

Hargreaves Ntukwana: Born 1938 Johannesburg-Died in May 1998

A Painter and sculptor of figures and township life Worked in oil, gouache, ink, was, pencil, charcoal, wood, plaster of Paris, clay and terracotta. A Witch Doctor series, a rural life series and a factory series. STUDIES Polly Street Art Centre, Johannesburg, under Cecil Skotnes 1955-56 African School of Art Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); 1960-62 privately under Cordelidos, in Toledo, Spain; 1971-73 privately under Professor Mel Edwards in New York.

PROFILE He has lectured on SA art in New York and in Switzerland. 1984 a workshop teacher at the University of the Witswatersrand. 1979 designed clothes for “Black and White is Beautiful”, a modelling show in Germany. A photographer and jazz musician who participated in the musical “King Kong” designed the record sleeves for “Underground in Africa” by Dollar Brand in 1980; “Did you tell your Mother” by the Cape Town Jazz Musicians in 1982 and “Plum and Cherry” by Basil Manenberg Coetzee in 1984. 1984 designed a wine bottle label for a Swiss company bottling SA wine. Designs for rugs made in Lesotho and for Christmas cards. 1971-1973. 1981-82 and 1985 lived in the USA; 1973-74 travelled in Europe; 1977 in Switzerland; 1979 visited West Germany.

EXHIBITIONS. He has participated in several group exhibitions in SA Europe, USA, Lesotho and Zimbabwe; 1967 Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg, first of over 15 solo exhibitions held in SA France, Switzerland, West Germany, The Netherlands and the USA· REPRESENTED Rutgers State University, New Jersey, USA, University of California USA, University of Fort Hare University of the Witswatersrand

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PUBLIC COMMISSION 1986 mural for the Italian School Johannesburg and
over the years in various churches in Kwa Zulu Natal & Soweto.

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