Peter Clarke Homage to Dumile, 1979 Gouache and collage on paper Work: 49 x 65 cm
Peter Clarke producing the work. (SEE IMAGES)
Taken from Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin (eds.) (2011). Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke, Johannesburg: Standard Bank of South Africa. Page 145.
This was produced in 1979 while Dumile was in exile in New York and was painted at the home of photographer Peter Hallett in Boule d’Amont in the Spring of 1979. Hallet showed Clarke a UNESCO poster in which this image was used. Clarke’s work effectively acts as a veritable poster on a wall that could well have announced some sort of political rally during the Struggle. The image is surrounded by a dedication written graffiti-like on a wall by Clarke to Feni, as well as by quotes from Langston Hughes and Frantz Fanon. Clarke, who was first introduced to the work of Feni by Hallett, subsequently saw and greatly admired Feni’s work.
Poem on back of artwork, need inscription details from framers
