David Koloane (South African, 1938-2019) The Night Has A Thousand Eyes, 2007-2008 mixed media on paper 128 x 300cm (50 3/8 x 118 1/8in). Footnotes: Provenance Acquired from The Goodman Gallery, South Africa in 2013. Saatchi Collection. Exhibited London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, 2014 Literature Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea II, 2015, p.62-63 Whitechapel Gallery, Seven Stories: About Modern Art in Africa, 1995, p.265 The Night has a Thousand Eyes depicts churchgoers finding their way around a township at night, with the ominous presence of scattered dogs whose eyes glow a neon yellow. Throughout his artistic career, dogs were a recurring theme in Koloane's work. They were a symbol of violence and control, often unleashed to attack black South Africans under the Apartheid regime. A strong critic of the control of spaces for black South Africans and the limitations black artists had to practice, Koloane joined forces with a collective of artists and founded the Thupelo workshops. Later he also created a complex of studio spaces called the Bag Factory in Johannesburg to empower up and coming artists. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com