LUCAS SITHOLE 1958 – 1979

A pictorial review of Africa's major Black sculptor

236 pages, 4 colour plates, 104 black and white plates, cream card wrappers with photograph of Sithole on upper cover – paperback, a very good copy.

Lucas Sithole(1931-1994) was a South African sculptor best known for his work in mainly indigenous woods, as well as for his sculptures in bronze, stone and other media. He was born on 15 November 1931, in Springs. He died on 8 May 1994, in Pongola . Born of a Zulu father and a Swazi mother; he was married, had seven children. He lived in Kwa-Thema, Springs, until 1981, thereafter near Pongola on the Swaziland/Mozambique border. He never travelled beyond the South African borders, except to Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Sithole