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In 1947 Sekoto left South Africa in exile for Paris, never to return. There he befriended a Frenchman Raymond de Cardonne and his Danish wife Else Clausen, who spoke English and owned the Galerie Else-Clausen at 14 Rue Des Beaux-Arts in the 6th arrondissement.
The couple offered Sekoto his first gallery exhibition in Paris, Peintures Sud-Africaines par Gérard Sekoto, 22-30 April 1949. Sekoto was hugely depressed to only sell three paintings.
The above work dates from the late 1950s.
Please note: The title of this work should read 'Profile of a young girl'. This work was also exhibited at the retrospective 'Sekoto: unsevered ties' at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1989-1990 and illustrated in the accompanying exhibition catalogue, no.69, p.84.