Zwelethu Mthethwa

South African · b. 1960 · Painter, Photographer

Zwelethu Mthethwa is a South African painter and photographer. He was convicted of murder in 2017 and was incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison. (Wikipedia)

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Record prices

  1. Zwelethu Mthethwa, A Woman with Angels, pastelA Woman with AngelsStrauss & Co · ZAR 245,080≈ $35,005≈ £21,595≈ €24,751Sign up to see
  2. Zwelethu Mthethwa, Good Times, pastel on paperGood TimesStrauss & Co · ZAR 136,416≈ $12,172≈ £7,655≈ €9,749Sign up to see
  3. Zwelethu Mthethwa, Untitled (Sugar Cane Series), chromogenic printUntitled (Sugar Cane Series)Strauss & Co · ZAR 50,130≈ $7,306≈ £4,484≈ €5,208Sign up to see

Zwelethu Mthethwa’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Zwelethu Mthethwa is a South African painter and photographer. He was convicted of murder in 2017 and was incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison.

Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1960, DurbanOccupation Painter, PhotographerWikidata Q243830 ↗ULAN 500123972 ↗

In the collections of

Centre Georges PompidouGuggenheim Museum BilbaoJ. Paul Getty MuseumMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y LeónMuseum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseum of Modern ArtNasher Museum of ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtStudio Museum in HarlemThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtVictoria and Albert Museum

Museum representation from open data (Wikidata, museum collection datasets); links go to the museum or its collection record.

Also known as Zwelethu Harold Joseph Mthethwa

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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