Lucas Sithole Winter II, 1975 Rhodesian teak on Liquid steel Base Work: 110 cm
Sithole’s representations of human forms as simplified yet graceful elongated figures, were
carved from a single piece of wood and mounted on a modest base (usually wood, stone or
liquid steel). These figures reflect Sithole’s remarkable ability to depict human emotion and
social realism through his carving, allowing the wood to reveal an emotional form. Only a
handful of these elongated figures were carved with separate legs. In most, the legs are
fused or at most a small parting can be seen close to the base. Perhaps often the wood did
not allow for it, but presumably too Sithole could carve a more stable and taller figure by
retaining the legs as a unified piece. Winter II, with its distinctly separate long legs, as well
as the double head, makes this figure unusual in his oeuvre. 1 http://sithole.com/SITHOLE-
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