Lot 179: Bill Ainslie SOUTH AFRICAN 1934-1989 - Pachipamwe No. 5

Bill Ainslie
SOUTH AFRICAN 1934-1989
Pachipamwe No. 5
dated July 1989 and inscribed with the artist's name and the title on the reverse
mixed media
164 by 168 by 4,5cm

LITERATURE:
Pat Williams (1990). Last Paintings by Bill Ainslie 1934–1989. African Arts Trust and Gencore Development Fund, illustrated in colour on page
7
The word ‘pachipamwe’ is a Shona greeting to someone one was momentarily parted from, when being reunited. It was also the name of a
series of artists’ workshops that Ainslie attended in Zimbabwe in the 1980s.