Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

South African | 1943

Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi is a South African Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1943. Their work is currently being shown at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart have featured Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi's work in the past.Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 32 USD to 71,561 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 71,561 USD for Triptych: Where do we go from here?, sold at Bonhams New Bond Street in 2008. Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for MOUSSE Magazine in June 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Helen Sebedi, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi, Mmakgabo Sebidi

At Auction

Notable Lots

A Vision of the Future II - Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

A Vision of the Future II ,1989

By Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

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ALEXZANDRA SEENE NEAR JOHANNESBURG NORTH (sic) - Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

ALEXZANDRA SEENE NEAR JOHANNESBURG NORTH (sic) ,27

By Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

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At Home is Difficult

By Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

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Recent Auction Results

Washer Women

By Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

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From the River near Pietersburg

By Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

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Taking them out to Graze" Near Jericho TVL

By Helen Mmakgabo Mmapula Sebidi

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Current Exhibitions

When We See Us

BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts

Brussels | Belgium

Feb 07,2025 - Aug 10,2025

Past Exhibitions

When We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart

Basel | Switzerland

May 25,2024 - Oct 27,2024

Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi: Ntlo E Etsamayang (The Walking House)

Everard Read/ CIRCA, Cape Town

Cape Town | South Africa

Jul 10,2024 - Jul 31,2024

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Articles

MOUSSE Magazine 17/06/2024

In 鈥淲hen We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration in Painting,鈥� the Kunstmuseum Basel presents a kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting from the past one hundred years.

ArtDaily 28/05/2024

In When We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, the Kunstmuseum Basel presents a kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting from the past one hundred years.

CNN 10/05/2024

It was a phone call that changed everything.

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Coverage

鈥� .. When Mmakgabo Sebidi left her domestic worker job and moved back to the rural areas in 1975, she laid the foundation for what is still at the heart of her practice today 鈥� summed up by the artist as work... 鈥�
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Everard Read/ CIRCA, Johannesburg

鈥� ..Although the lessons at the heart of much of her work are didactic in nature, there is a humanity, playfulness and final optimism here that are very much the impression one gets from the artist herself... 鈥�
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Everard Read/ CIRCA, Johannesburg