Norman Catherine

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, in association with Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, where acquired by David Bowie, 1995

London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Mayibuye i Afrika, 28th September - 28th October 1995;
San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eight From South Africa, 18th January - 8th March 1996.

Ivor Powell, On the Road: Works by 10 Southern African Artists, London, 1995, illustrated p.19;
Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, Art in South Africa: The Future Present, Cape Town, 1996, pp.26, 30;
Hazel Friedman, Norman Catherine, Johannesburg, 2000, p.124, illustrated p.6;
Ashraf Jamal, 'Norman Catherine and the Art of Terror', University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.

The work consists of six shelves onto which the characters are fixed: most by glue but others by nail. Two works - the yellow cat top left and the headless man in black, second from the left on the fourth row, can be lifted off their nails. The painted stick on the bottom of the square red face, second from the right on the top row, is missing from the catalogue photograph and has since been fixed back onto the work. Otherwise the work is in good, original condition.
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