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Specialists in fine paintings, sculpture, prints, and unique works on paper by African Modern & Contemporary Masters.

18/02/2026

Two days to go until Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026 (20–22 February).

Visit Peffers Fine Art at Booth SP2, CTICC for Back o’ the Moon – Listening Across Generations, featuring photographs by Alf Kumalo and his Drum-era peers, and continue the experience at our gallery at Radio House, Loop Street.

Learn more → https://www.investeccapetownartfair.co.za/galleries/special-projects

06/02/2026

As Black History Month unfolds, Peffers Fine Art is proud to highlight the Drum Archive – including photographs by Bob Gosani, Gopal Naransamy and G.R. Naidoo – within our Special Project Back o’ the Moon – Listening Across Generations at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026.
Visit us at Booth SP2 and at our gallery at Radio House, Loop Street. More → https://www.peffersart.com/drum-archive/

06/12/2025

GALLERY LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENING
Black Modernism: Between Abstraction and Spirit

Today, Saturday 6 December 2025
10h00–14h00

First Floor, Radio House
92 Loop Street, Cape Town City Centre

Join us for a glass of bubbles as we celebrate both the exhibition and the opening of our newly refurbished gallery space.

The exhibition brings together a focused constellation of works from the 1940s to the late 1990s by Peter Clarke, Dumile Feni, Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae, Ephraim Ngatane, Helen Sebidi, Lucky Sibiya, Gerard Sekoto and their peers, alongside “Black-modern adjacent” artists including Cecil Skotnes, Edoardo Villa and Maggie Laubser. The exhibition traces how these artists negotiated form, spirit and lived experience under apartheid – and how their visions continue to reverberate in the social and political realities of today.

22/05/2025

RMB LATITUDES ART FAIR
SPECIAL PROJECT

ESSAY: Tracing Modernist Lineages
A special presentation of drawings by the late Sydney Kumalo, whose works on paper reveal a vital and often overlooked aspect of his artistic practice.

In partnership with RMB Latitudes, Peffers Fine Art also presents a rare selection of charcoal and pastel drawings by Sydney Kumalo as part of the fair’s Special Projects section. Titled Tracing Modernist Lineages, this presentation reveals the powerful draughtsmanship of one of South Africa’s foremost modernists.

Though Kumalo is best known as a sculptor, his drawings offer a crucial insight into his creative process—merging spiritual symbolism, ancestral form, and formal innovation. Spanning the 1970s to early 1980s, these works on paper reflect his sculptural language in two dimensions, often acting as studies for major commissions or independent meditations on form and presence.

From intimate figures and ritual gestures to bold studies for monumental public works, Kumalo’s drawings embody a profound fusion of traditional African aesthetics with modernist abstraction. Together, they speak to a career rooted in spiritual resilience and a deep engagement with the human condition.

RMB LATITUDES ART FAIR
Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg
23-25 May
online

21/05/2025

Join us this weekend at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair

This focused presentation features rare and evocative photographic works by some of South Africa’s most celebrated documentary photographers—Ernest Cole, Bob Gosani, Alf Kumalo, GR Naidoo, Jürgen Schadeberg, and Paul Weinberg.

The images capture the vibrant cultural life of Sophiatown, a crucible of music, politics, and resistance in apartheid-era South Africa.

Through portraits of jazz legends such as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Dolly Rathebe, and Winston Mankunku, and dynamic scenes from township theatres, jazz clubs, and street corners, this presentation honours the photographers who bore witness to a community’s defiant creativity and unbreakable spirit.

From the powerful photojournalism of Ernest Cole to the intimate backstage moments captured by Bob Gosani, this exhibition is a tribute to an extraordinary cultural epoch and the photographers who immortalised it.
online

16/05/2025

UPCOMING
RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2025

Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg
23–25 May

SPECIAL PROJECT
ESSAY: Tracing Modernist Lineages: Sydney Kumalo

Presented by RMB Latitudes
and Peffers Fine Art
online

15/05/2025

UPCOMING
RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2025

Visit us at this year’s fair to view our two presentations – a curated selection of rare Sydney Kumalo drawings, and a photographic selection honouring the vibrant music culture the emerged from Sophiatown.

MAIN FAIR PRESENTATION
Booth B9

A focused presentation of photographs that celebrate the rich cultural life that emerged in Sophiatown in defiance of apartheid-era oppression in South Africa.

Including works by Alf Kumalo, Ernest Cole, Bob Gosani, GR Naidoo, Gopal Naransamy, Jürgen Schadeberg, and Paul Weinberg.

RMB LATITUDES ART FAIR
Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg
23-25 May
online

13/05/2025

Opening Tonight:
PAUL WEINBERG
Between the cracks: A Career Retrospective Exhibition

‘Between the cracks’ brings together nearly five decades of Paul Weinberg’s photographic career. Over this period, he has produced 21 books, either as a photographer or as both author and photographer. He has also contributed to various important collective projects, exhibitions, and publications.

Wits Art Museum (WAM)
13 May to 26 July 2025

Exhibition opening | WAM | Tuesday 13 May, 18:00

Book launch | Love Books | Wednesday 14 May, 18:00

Seminar | FADA, University of Johannesburg | Thursday 15 May, 14:00

Artist walkabout | WAM | Saturday 17 May, 12:00

26/04/2025

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

BACK O’ THE MOON
at the Journey to Jazz Festival

Back O’ the Moon is a photographic exhibition that draws its title from the legendary Sophiatown shebeen where South African jazz greats—such as Dolly Rathebe—mingled with pioneering photographers like Bob Gosani. This project seeks to foreground the powerful synergy between musicians and photographers during a defining period in South Africa’s cultural and political history, presenting a compelling visual narrative of resistance, dignity, and creativity under apartheid.

JOURNEY TO JAZZ FESTIVAL
Prince Albert
1-4 May 2025

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27/03/2025

Artwork of the Day

Fred Page, Anonymous Intrusion, 1973

Enquire here: https://www.peffersart.com/artworks/587-fred-page-anonymous-intrusion-1973/

25/03/2025

Artwork of the Day

Dumile Feni, Untitled (Portrait of Docrat), 1968

Enquire here: https://www.peffersart.com/artists/36-dumile-feni/works/408-dumile-feni-untitled-portrait-of-docrat-1968/

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