Famous South-African artist Cyril Fradan Apartheids tekening

Cyril Fradan was born in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa (now South Africa) in 1928. He moved to London in 1960, where he showed abstract paintings calling attention to the suffering caused by the apartheid regime. A noted figures in the London art scene of the time, from 1979 Fradan held annual art and music festivals at his Holland Park home for some years.
Some of Fradan’s paintings depicted the suffering of Africans under apartheid, with the focal point being a large abstract representing the agony of 69 Africans killed in the Sharpeville massacre the previous year. While his canvases were on show, a threatening letter addressed to ‘Communist Fradan’ was sent to the Gallery, warning him against such depictions, making him afraid for his life. His work is exposed in South-African musea.
See also the Iziko museum and South Africa art archives.
Size:
35 x 22cm
51 x 38 cm (with frame)