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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Born in 1952 in Nyanga, Zimbabwe, Lazarus Takawira lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is the youngest of three sculptor brothers. Sculpting hard serpentine stone, his artwork reveals figures of women with mysterious faces, sometimes reminding of Modigliani’s work.
For him, they are the most important gender, for they are the source of all life, beauty and joy. ‘Women direct everything in our lives and as a sculptor, I pay tribute to the women in my life who made the person I am now in all my works’.
His works are featured in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, as well as in various public collections, including the Rodin Museum in Paris, the Africa Museum in Belgium, the Rodin Museum in Bombay, India, the World Bank in New York and the Tervuren Museum in Belgium. He was presented to the Queen at the Zimbabwe Heritage Exhibition during the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and his works were purchased by Prince Charles.
Celia Irving-Winter, art historian and critic, says of Lazarus work: ‘Like his master counterparts, his brothers and Nicholas Mukomberwana, Lazarus Takawira has proved that sculpture made in Zimbabwe was an essential expression of this county’s culture’.
Takawira talks about his African culture, the moveable feast which comprises his beliefs, his life experience, his historic consciousness and his sense of spiritual and familial ancestry.
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