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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Portia Zvavahera

Vese Vakanddibata (They all gave me strength)

Auction Closed

May 18, 10:53 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Portia Zvavahera

b. 1985


Vese Vakanddibata (They all gave me strength) 

oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas

78 ⅜ by 138 ¼ in.

199 by 351 cm.

Executed in 2016. 

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Kwanele Sosibo, “Zim Artists See with Spiritual Eyes,” Mail & Guardian, 30 November 2016, illustrated in color (online)
Percy Mabandu, “A Haunted Brilliance Issues from Portia Zvavahera’s Paintings,” The Sunday Times, 15 January 2017, illustrated in color (online)
Stephanie Bailey, “Portia Zvavahera’s Painted Dreams,” Ocula Magazine, 22 September 2020, illustrated in color (online)
Osei Bonsu, African Art Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century, London, 2022, pp. 230-231, illustrated in color
Johannesburg, STEVENSON, What I See Beyond Feeling, November 2016 - January 2017
Los Angeles, Marc Foxx, I'm with You, June - July 2017