The father of South African Art - Gerard Sekoto

Gerard Sekoto (9 December 1913 - 20 March 1993), was a South African artist and musician. He is recognized as the pioneer of urban black art, social realism, and more recently as the father of South African art and of his 8 daughters and 3 sons. He has had exhibitions in Paris, Stockholm, Venice, Washington, Senegal as well as in South Africa.

In 1938 at the age of 29 he left for Johannesburg to pursue a career as an artist. He lived with relatives in Gerty Street, Sophiatown. He held his first solo exhibition in 1939. In 1940 the Johannesburg Art Gallery purchase

d one of his pictures; it was to be the first picture painted by a black artist to enter a museum collection. In 1942 he

He has inspired a lot of young black township still struggling to leave the the backroom and enter exhibitions.

 Back when there was no hope for rhe art industry He sold a master piece.