b'5384HENRY MUNYARADZI (Shona-Zimbabwe, 193198),Sable Antelope, 1987Serpentine stone sculpture on timber base,incised HENRY to base,overall height 37cmWith Certificate of Authenticity.Henry Munyaradzi was born in Guruve in 1931. He had nowrote: Henrys interest is sculptural perfection. He remains formal education and spent his childhood herding cattle andclose to an aesthetic of art for arts sake. His work has a hunting game. highly individual stylized stamp, and is readily appreciated and His creative talent was to blossom years later when, in 1967,understood by a Western aesthetically-oriented public.he joined the rural community of sculptors at Tengenenge.Munyaradzi was influenced by the natural shape of the stone Munyaradzi stayed at Tengenenge until 1975 and during hisand would carefully choose a stone that he saw as having eight years there he firmly established himself as the masterwithin it the form that he sought to release. As he explained: sculptor of that community. Every stone has got a sculpture in it, but only a sculptor can Preferring to work on his own, he soon developed a distinctivesee it and release it.style. Describing Munyaradzis work in 1983, Christopher$2,0003,000Till, then the Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, 84'