b'5688 89CLAUD NYANHONGO BRIGHTON SANGO (Shona-Zimbabwe, b.1934) (Shona, Zimbabwe 1958-1995),Monkey, Untitled,stone sculpture, green serpentine stone sculpture,engraved Claud Nyanhongo to base, base engraved SANGO,height 34cm height 86cm (including wooden base 6.5cm)Nyanhongo was born in 1934 in Nyanga, Zimbabwe.Brighton Sango was the leading light of his generation of He started sculpting together with Conrad Nyagwande inZimbabwean sculptors and was hugely influential in the 1964 and for a while mainly sculpted curios for the touristdevelopment of the Shona art movement. He was born in market. In 1980, he moved to Harare and worked with MosesGuruve, Northeast Zimbabwe. Coming from a large poor Masaya, who convinced him to create more original works. family, his formal education lasted only two years. He began $5001,000 sculpting as a result of contact with the nearby Tengenenge sculpture community, and learnt the basic techniques from Bernard Matemera, but stayed only a few months as he strongly felt the need to work alone and develop his own style.At Independence in 1980, Sango came to Harare, which was the focal point for the most respected Zimbabwean artists. He struggled with the urban environment and, in 1990, he returned to the bush (sango). He seems to have been the most introspective of all the Zimbabwean sculptors: his inspiration came from within rather than from Shona culture and tradition. His abstract forms challenge what we think of as African art, and Western observers presumed a Western cubist influence. Needless to say, his ideas were all his own and Shona sculpture has never been the same since. In 1995, he committed suicide, overwhelmed by the intense personal feelings that drove his creativity. It was a tragic loss of the Shona art movements brightest young star.$2,0003,00088'