Julius Lionel SHER
Paintings, drawings and graphics
1934*
Julius SHER in 1963
Brief C.V.
Born in Johannesburg on 9th February, 1934, educated at Jeppe High School, studied art at the Witwatersrand Technical Art School, Johannesburg, under Phyllis Gardner, 1951-1953. Between 1956 and 1959 studied in London at the Central School of Art and at St. Martin’s School of Art under Frederick J.P. Gore. Returned to Johannesburg 1959, leaving for London in 1964. In 1967 Julius Sher emigrated to Australia, living first in Sydney, then Perth WA.
Selected exhibitions in London and South Africa
1955 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria "Contemporary Art in the Transvaal" Centenary Pretoria 1955 (2 works)
1959 Drian Galleries, London (Drian Artists)
1959 Woodstock Gallery, London ("South African Painters in Europe 1959")
1959 New Vision Centre Gallery, London (20th April - 9th May) (solo) (paintings)
1960 Queen’s Hall Art Gallery, Johannesburg (34 Contemporary SA Artists) (8th August, 1960)
1960 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (D.S. Vorster Gallery) "Johannesburg Group: Abrams Boys Jasven Sher White" (4th October)
1960 Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg (paintings and drawings) (20th June - 2nd July) (solo)
1961 Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg (paintings and drawings) (3rd to 14th October) (solo)
1962 National Art Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea - invited to the 6th Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition (sponsored by Chosen Ilbo) (April)
1962 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (South African Painters Past and Present 1818 - 1962) (14th August)
1963 Gallery 101, Johannesburg (May)
1963 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (Artists of Fame and Promise), cat. 79
1963 Gallery 101, Johannesburg - "Man/4 Images": Julius Sher/Ronald Brent/Stan Elliott/John Rowe (11th November)
1964 Rembrandt Art Centre, Milner Park, Johannesburg (Johannesburg Festival: "Art of Today") (5th September to 10th October)
1970 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (October/November)
Selected images from the South African period in the abstract-expressionist style
"Abstract", 1961 oil/board - 91.5x101.5 cm - SANLAM Art Collection, Bellville
"Martyr", 1962 oil/board - left panel of triptych - ea. 99x89 cm - WITS ART MUSEUM, Johannesburg (donated by the Schlesinger Organisation, 1979)
(click on this link or image for all panels and details including ©)
"Nude", 1963 - collage and oil - 91x107 cm - Rupert Art Foundation Collection
Selected SA publications and references
1955 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria "Contemporary Art in the Transvaal" Centenary Pretoria 1955, cat. 52, 53
"South African Painters in Europe 1959: Sicander Adam, Denis Bowen, John Coplans, Stanley Dorfman, Minne Fry, Douglas Portway, Dolf Rieser, Eric Rutherford, Julius Sher, Yolanda Sonnabend" (Woodstock Gallery, London) (1959), 6 pp.
"Art and Religion" - The Gallery 101-U.A.T. 1962 Scholarship – Johannesburg (February, 1962) (brochure, illustrated, cat. 32-34) – 3rd Prizewinner with his triptych “Martyr”
"Arbeid-Work" - The Gallery 101-U.A.T. 1963 Competition - Johannesburg (March, 1963) (brochure, illustrated front cover, cat. 13) – Overall 1st Prize-winner with his “Man carrying Carcass”
"Man carrying carcass", 1963 - a collection in the U.K.
„South African Artists 1900-1962“ (Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel), 1963, p. 87
"Twentieth Century South African Art" (Bokhorst) (Human & Rousseau), 1966, ill. 102, p. 131
ARTLOOK 13, Johannesburg – December 1967, p. 6 ill.
Triptych „Martyr“, 1962 (originally) in Schlesinger Center, Johannesburg (Directors‘ Reception area), ill. In ARTLOOK 13 Johannesburg, December 1967, p. 6
ARTLOOK 48, Johannesburg - November, 1970, p. 17 ill.
"Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Balkema), 1983, pp. 49, 160, 299, 524; ill. p. 160 - ISBN 0 86961 144 5
"The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia" (Ogilvie) (Everard Read Publ.), 1988, p. 601 - ISBN 0 620 12663 9
"Visual Century - South African Art in Context" Vol 2, 1945-1976 (Wits University Press), 2011 (van Robbroek), Ch 8, Fig 11 - ISBN 9781 86814 525 6
Further reference:
News/Check Johannesburg - Vol 1 No 25 21st June, 1963 - p39
"Cowboy Kate & Other Stories" by Sam Haskins (Bodley Head, London) (1965) - All typography including design of jacket and title-pages by Julius SHER
To see the latest works by Julius SHER and an up-to-date biography, please look at the following site:
Updated 19th October, 2012
