George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba (South African 1912-2001)
Painting size 37 x 24 cm unframed.
Signed and dated '47 Watercolour on Paper
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Names: Pemba, Milwa Mnyaluza "George"
Born: 2 April 1912, Korsten, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province (now Eastern Cape), South Africa
Died: 12 July 2001
In summary: Artist, teacher and playwright
Mnyaluza Pemba was born on 2 April 1912 at Hill’s Kraal in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der Kemp Mission Primary School where he was educated, Pemba developed an early love for art which his father encouraged by buying him pencils and crayons. The young Pemba became notorious for escaping from the drudgery of schoolwork into his private world of drawing.
In 1924, Pemba won a Grey Scholarship to Paterson School, where he devoured the art books in the school library. As a 16 year old pupil, he entered and won an art competition at a local agricultural show. Pemba began to expand his repertoire to include drawing portraits based on photographs, for which he earned pocket-money.
He continued to pursue his art successfully over the next six decades. His exquisite paintings and drawings slowly began to attract a wider audience and led to his exhibiting more widely. After his works were accepted for an exhibition of “Negro and Bantu Art” in Port Elizabeth in the late 1930s, Pemba exhibited regularly (until shortly before his death in 2001).
Pemba turned professional in the late 1940s, and entirely against the tide of the growing threat of overt racism engulfing South African society, held his first solo exhibition in East London in 1948. Pemba’s successful exhibition and the sale of his paintings, at the Eastern Province Art Association’s annual exhibition in 1965, provoked undisguised racial hostility.
Painting is sold in the manner of as we do not have sufficient provenance as the painting was purchased as part of a painting lot at a auction house. The painting does have age and the work is very well done so we do beleive it to be original . But selling as is.
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