1914 - 1979
sculptures
Short C.V. - Solo and Group Shows
Works sold on auction - Other references and links
Born in 1914 in Baku, Russia/Azerbaijan, of Polish parentage; came to South Africa from England in 1955. Studied architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Warsaw, Fine Arts at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, the Hammersmith School of Art, London, and for one year at the Michaelis School of Art, Cape Town (under Lippy Lipshitz and Maurice van Essche). Exhibited since 1958 in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Stellenbosch. Represented in the SA National Gallery, Cape Town. Was married to well-known concert pianist Virginia Fortescue, lived in Mowbray in the Cape.
2nd Quadrennial of South African Art 1960
Queens Hall Art Gallery, Johannesburg 1960 (solo)
"Art and Religion" The Gallery 101 - U.A.T. 1962 Scholarship Exhibition - Febr. 1962 (cat. 53)
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 1st October 1962 (solo)
SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - Oct. 1962 (solo)
Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria 1966
all works illustrated are in welded sheet copper
see also:
http://www.za-ch-art-kunst.ch/ARTLinks/PrivateCollection/JAHOLKOWSKI_George.htm
http://www.iziko.org.za/sang/exhib/2002/birds/cocks.htm
Welz / Sotheby's Cape Town - 20th/21st October, 2009 - Lot 595 - ill.
Ashbey's Cape Town - 15th October, 2009 - Lot 233 - ill.
Sotheby's Johannesburg (The Ben and Cecilia Jaffe Collection) - 21st October, 1981 - Lot 212 - not ill. (Standing Figure)
SA Panorama, Pretoria - Dec. 1960
Fontein, Johannesburg, Vol. I, Nr. 3, 1960
Architect &Builder, January 1962
"Art in South Africa since 1900" (FL Alexander) (Balkema), 1962, p. 120, 140
"South African Artists 1900-1962" (Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel), 1963, p. 126
"Twentieth Century South African Art" (Human & Rousseau), 1966, p. 78, fig. 53
"South African Art" (James Ambrose Brown) (Macdonald), 1978, p. 16 + 32, not ill.
"Three Centuries of South African Art" (Donker) (H Fransen), 1982, p. 334/5 (coll. SANG)
"Talon", copper sheet sculpture", undated, ill. in "Sculpture•SA 1900-1967" cat. 41, Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg, 1967
See also close-up of following image
on http://www.pelmama.org/Johannesburg_artscene_Gallery101_people.htm
Newspaper reviews:
Central News, Johannesburg - March, 1962 - "Nun" ill. on cover
The Star, Johannesburg - 26th September, 1962, ill.
S.A. Tatler, Johannesburg - Sept. 1962 - notice
S.A. Stem - 7th October, 1962 - review Zandberg Jansen
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg - 11th October, 1962 - comment + ill. of "Don Quixote"
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 18th October, 1962 - comment + ill. of "Bird flight"
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 30th January, 1965 - review + ill. of "Galletto"
ARTLOOK Johannesburg, Vol. 1 No. 2 (December, 1966), p. 5
The Star, Johannesburg - undated review
unknown Afrikaans paper, undated - review of Pretoria exhibition 1962, with ill. of "Horse 1960"
Cape Argus (?), undated - comments and ill. of "Mother and child" donated to the Sarah Fox Convalescent Home, Silvertown
www.pelmama.org - do an internal search for "Jaholkowski"!
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