Artist: Gerard Sekoto (1913 - 1993)
Nationality: South African
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Originally intended to become a schoolteacher, Gerard Sekoto’s training introduced him to drawing and painting and encouraged him to create an art career. He then moved to Johannesburg and painted landscapes and scenes of everyday black life. In 1940, one of Sekoto’s works was purchased by the Johannesburg Art Gallery and remained the only painting by a black artist for over twenty years. He moved to Paris in 1947 and lived in France for the rest of his life, however he still painted primarily South African subjects in European styles such as Impressionism, Cubism, and Orphism.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Johannes de Groot Portrait of Gerard Dou Mezzotint 17th - 18th century
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Gerard ter Borch Portrait of a Gentleman in Black oil on copper circa 1639 - 1640
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Louis Gerard Scotin Arrivee de l'Operateur a l'Hostellerie 1731
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Rembrandt Peale - Portrait of Jacob Gerard Koch c. 1817 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Louis Gerard Scotin His Majesty Presenting Peace to Great Britain Engraving 1757
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Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Francois-Pascal-Simon, Baron Gerard 1836-c. 1838 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Pierre Alexandre du Tardieu Portrait of Gerard Dou: Lover of the Fine Arts and Sciences ENG 18th - 19th century
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Gerard Trignac La Voie etching 1981
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Gerard Trignac L'Etranger etching 1983
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G. Metzeroth Ney, after Gerard 19th century
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Gérard de Vesme, 177(3?) Pierre Pasquier (French, 1731-1806)Enamel; Oval, 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.
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General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1774-1852), Marshal of France, 1816 Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825)Oil on canvas; 77
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Henry Wolf Gerard Dow 19th - 20th century
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Gerard Cochet Le Cafe Etching 19th - 20th century
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Jacob Gerard Veldheer Dorfstrasse wood cut 1895
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Artist: Gerard Van Nijmegen Title: A River Landscape Date: 1783 Medium: pen and brown ink
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Godfried Schalcken Portrait of Gerard Dou Etching 17th - 18th century
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Pieter de Jode II Gerard Segers, (after self-portrait) etching and/or engraving 17th century
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Johannes Pieter de Frey Portrait of Gerard Dou 18th - 19th century
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Jacobus Houbraken (Gerard van Loon...) 17th - 18th century
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Jacob Gerard Veldheer Op Macken wood cut 19th - 20th century
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Pieter de Jode II Portrait of Gerard Honthorst, (after his self-portrait) etching and/or engraving 17th century
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Artist: Gérard Dou Title: A Hermit Praying Date: 1670 Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: H.13-1/4
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Gerard Cochet Les trois chevaux de courses Etching 19th - 20th century
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Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard The Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1806 engraving 18th - 19th century
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Gerard de Jode Samson tying the firebrands to the foxes' tails 16th century
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Aert Schouman Portrait of Gerard Dou Mezzotint 18th century
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Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin (the younger) Mausoleum at the Funeral Ceremony of Philip of France, Duke of Orleans and only brother of the King in the Church of St. Denis, July 23, 1701 Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Francois-Seraphin Delpech Gerard Comte de Nevers 1440 18th - 19th century
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Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse, ca. 1665 Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)Oil on canvas; 44
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Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard Comtesse de Morel- Vinde and her Daughter ( The Music Lesson) oil on canvas 1799
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Jacob Gerard Veldheer Dorfstrasse Japan paper green ink wood cut 1895
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Jacob Gerard Veldheer Dorfstrasse (Village Street) wood cut 19th - 20th century
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Artist: attributed to Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard Title: Louis-Phillipe and his Sons, the Duke of Chartres
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Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard General Rapp Reporting to Napoleon the Defeat of the RussianImperial Guard, Austerlitz (2 December 1805) oil on canvas 1810
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Self-portrait Gerard Dou (Dutch, 1613-1675)Oil on wood; 19 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (48.9 x
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Portrait of a Boy, ca. 1775 Marie Anne Gérard Fragonard (Madame Fragonard) (French, 1745-1823)Ivory; Oval,
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Johan George Wille Tante de Gerard Dow Engraving 18th - 19th century
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Petrus Schenck Portrait of Gerard Outhof Mezzotint 17th - 18th century
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A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid, ca. 1650-51 Gerard ter Borch (Dutch,
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Gerard ter Borch Le Prelude...twenty second plate in the book... [Title in Russian and French] Imperatorskaya Ermitazhnaya Galereya ä GalÈrie ImpÈriale de l'Ermitage (Saint Petersburg: Gohier Desfontaines, 1847) Lithograph 17th century
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Paul Pontius Gerard Honthorst, (after Anthony van Dyck's Iconographia) engraving 17th century
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Paul Pontius Portrait of Gerard Seghers, Peintre Engraving 17th century
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Figures facing right: a study for the left
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Figures facing right: a study for the left
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The van Moerkerken Family, probably 1653-54 Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617-1681)Oil on wood; 16 1/4
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Study of a man leading three horses
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Gerard van der Gucht Alexander carried by his soldiers Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Figures facing right: a study for the left
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Study of the central figures of Achilles Swearing
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Study of a striding man [Automedon]; Verso:
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Gerard Valck (Valk) Portrait of Prince Eugene of Savoy. After Matthaus Merian engraving 1683
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The Banquet of Cleopatra
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Three variant studies of Automedon [the left side
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Proportional study of a man holding a
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Four studies of a striding man with
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A Woman Playing the Theorbo for a Cavalier, ca. 1658 Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617-1681)Oil
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Frontal study of a seated man and
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Father of Psyche
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Gerard Valck (Valk) Portrait of the painter Cornelis de Bruyn engraving 17th - 18th century
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Jacob Gerard Veldheer Dutch Village with church tower & roof seen over roofs etching 19th - 20th century
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Two groups of warriors facing right, studies
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Study of a draped woman facing left;
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Gerard Valck (Valk) Portrait of Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau engraving 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Valck (Valk) Portrait of Henry Viii, King of England. engraving 17th - 18th century
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Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard Portrait: de S.A.R.Madame La Duchesse D'Orleans...third plate in the the book... Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 L
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Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard Daphnis...thirteenth plate in the book... Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 Lithograph 18th - 19th century
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Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard, French, 1770-1837 Recto: Study of a man seated in a
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Richard Dighton Caricature (full figure) of Gerard, 1st Vicount Lake - A View of the Lake" Color etching 1818
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Jacob Gerard Veldheer Dutch farm cottage on the dyke of a small canal wood cut 19th - 20th century
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Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard Les Trois Ages...twenty second plate in the book... Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 Lithograph 18th - 19th century
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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca. 1512-15 Gerard David (Netherlandish, born about 1455,
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Gerardus Mercator Title page, table of contents, and text etc. of The Atlas of Gerard Mercator and Judocus Hondius 1633
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A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn
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Curiosity, ca. 1660 Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617-1681)Oil on canvas; 30 x 24 1/2 in.
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The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1520 Workshop of Gerard David (Netherlandish, born about 1455,
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The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, ca. 1510-15 Gerard David (Netherlandish, born
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The Nativity, early 1480s Gerard David (Netherlandish, born about 1455, died 1523)Oil on wood; Overall
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Gerard van der Gucht Hercules slaying the dragon which guards the golden apples in the gardens of the Hesperides Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Titien 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Van Bouc Engraving circa 1707
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Gerard Edelinck Portrait of Goltzius Engraving 1682
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Gerard Edelinck FranÁois Chauveau, Graveur ordinaire du Roy Engraving 1700
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Gerard Edelinck Joseph Scaliger 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Abraham Blomaert Engraving circa 1707
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Gerard Edelinck Carolus Le Brun... 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Francois Pithou Engraving circa 1700
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Gerard Edelinck Portrait of D. Remigius du Laury Engraving 1677
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Gerard David - The Annunciation c. 1490 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Gerard David - The Nativity c. 1485-90 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art Netherlandish
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Gerard koch - The Acrobats 1963 bronze Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Gerard Richter - Breath 1989 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum German
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Gerard David - The Deposition c. 1510-15 oil on canvas The Frick Collection Flemish
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Gerard Dou - The Hermit 1670 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Dutch
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Gerard David - Lamentation 1515-1523 oil on oak The National Gallery, London Netherlandish
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Virgin and Child with Four Angels, ca. 1510-15 Gerard David (Netherlandish, born about 1455, died
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Gerard Edelinck Louis, Duc de Bourgogne Line engraving 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Portrait of Durer Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Portrait of Albrecht Durer 17th - 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck Portrait of Titian Engraving 17th - 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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Iziko-SA National Gallery: Gerard Sekoto - From the Paris Studio
In 2000, the Gallery received a donation of over 2000 items from Sekoto's Paris studio and these included paintings, drawings and prints as well as memorabilia and photographs of an artist considered to be the pioneer of urban black art and soc...
Unisa Art Gallery: Homage to Thabang Noto Matseke (1930 - 1997): An Artist who Worked in Silence
Matseke had his primary schooling at the Methodist Primary School and secondary education at Hofmeyr High School in Atteridgeville, after which he proceeded to Kilnerton Training Institution for the Teacher's Higher Certificate, with specialised t...

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