Gerard Bhengu Zulu Artist by Phyllis Savory
Gerard Bhengu Zulu Artist by Phyllis Savory
Book in a Very Good+ condition. DJ has some overall edge wear and tidemarks to the lower edges and spine and scuffing to the back of the DJ. Now protected with a Cellophane Cover.
Hardcover
Publisher: Howard Timmins, 1965
Gerard Bhengu Zulu Artist by Phyllis Savory. First edition-Standard. Hardback with Dustcover over beige material boards.
Reproducing Bhengu's portraits of Zulu people and scenes of traditional Zulu life, also line drawings in text. Life and work of a respected black artist born in 1910 to a Zulu family in Natal.
Born near the Centecow Mission(Now St Gerard's) in Southern Natal in the year 1910, Gerard Bhengu, the amazing self-taught Zulu Artist, first showed his outstanding artistic ability almost before he could walk.
A sore trial to his tidy-minded mother, he was constantly in trouble for covering the walls of her hut with figures drawn in charcoal-the only medium he could find, and which his baby hands carefully pulled from the open fires upon which his mother cooked the family meals.
From the time he left school, that time onward. Gerard Bhengu received a great deal of encouragement from the few Europeans with whom he cam in contact with-- but only upon one occasion from one of his own people--and throughout his career he has remained an entirely self-taught artist.
