Famous artists often reveal more about the culture that values and displays their work than about the actual quality of their work.
Not only were artists like Warhol and Picasso immensely popular, but the worldwide art market, which is mostly controlled,,,
by Western organizations and individuals, has always favoured works by European and American artists.
Many non-Western artists still don't get the recognition they deserve, even if this bias is slowly dying down.
Conversations on Sekoto, Sher-Gil, and Egas, to name a few, are largely confined to obscure academic publications and snippets from museum catalogs, in contrast to ,,,
the ubiquitous evaluation of Picasso, Warhol, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, and Vincent van Gogh's legacy in the mainstream media.
Gerald Sekoto was born in Transvaal, South Africa in 1913. He was a painter and pianist.
The Johannesburg Art Gallery bought his work Yellow Houses—a Street in Sophiatown in 1940, making him the first Black artist in South Africa to sell to a museum.
He is remembered as a pioneer of South African art and one of the fathers of Black contemporary art generally.
The unfortunate timing of Sekoto's artistic career was directly related to the rise of apartheid.
Before the all-White South African Nationalist Party forcefully evacuated its inhabitants to segregated neighborhoods in 1950.