Phaswane David MOGANO (1932 – 2000)

BIOGRAPHY

Phoshoko David Mogano worked mainly in watercolours. With a distinctive style and detailed approach to figuration and scene, he documented many aspects of life in South Africa, from a tribal village in Polokwane, to township and village scenes, encounters with creatures in the wild, a Baptist church service, an ancestral ceremony with beads, the demolition of shacks in Pimville township, and an oxcart. He documented many different places, including Pietersburg, Alexandra and Pimville townships, Hammanskraal, Mamelodi and Lebowa.

The artist’s works have gone up for sale at public auction 136 times, mostly in the Drawing-Watercolour category.