Nell KAYE
1912 – 1969
Sculptures
Nell KAYE in 1963
Brief C.V.
Nell KAYE (née Sidersky) was born 1912 in Johannesburg; studied sculpture at the Johannesburg School of Art (1930-1934) and the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (under Lippy Lipshitz) (1950s). Nell KAYE was Chairlady of the SA Association of Arts, Cape Town, over many years.
Received numerous private and public commissions for portrait busts of public figures:
Died 1969 in Rondebosch, Cape Town
Selected Exhibitions
1959 SA Association of Arts Gallery, Cape Town (solo)
1960 Second Quadrennial of SA Art
1963 SA Association of Arts Gallery, Cape Town (solo)
1963 Gallery 101, Johannesburg (16th - 28th September) (solo) (38 sculptures)
1964 Third Quadrennial of SA Art
1964 Venice Biennale (included in SA entry)
1964 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria ("Contemporaries/Tydgenote 1963" ) cat. 26
1966 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Republic Festival Exhibition) (May)
1968 Stellenbosch (jointly with Frank Spears)
1970 SA Association of Arts, Johannesburg (Memorial Exhibition)
Selected Works in Public Collections
Hester Rupert Museum, Graaff-Reinet
Pretoria Art Museum
SA National Gallery, Cape Town
*Uys Krige", 1961, bronze by Nell KAYE
William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley
University of Stellenbosch
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Selected Publications
"Art in South Africa - Painting Sculpture and Graphic Work since 1900" (F.L. Alexander) (Balkema), 1962 - p. 131 fig. 117, p. 164
"South African Artists 1900-1962" (Harold Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel), 1963 - p. 128
"Twentieth Century South African Century" (Bokhorst) (Human & Rousseau), 1966 - p. 96, ill. fig. 69
"Three Centuries of South African Art" (Fransen) (A.D. Donker), 1982, p. 334 - ISBN 0 86852 012 8
"Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Balkema), 1983, pp. 344, 346 (ill.), 395, 402 (ill.), 475, 516, 517, 526, 536 - ISBN 0 86961 144 5
"The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia" (Ogilvie) (Everard Read), 1988, p. 329 - ISBN 0 620 12663 9
„The Advancement of Art“: The South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors 1902-1950 (Hayden Proud) (Iziko), 2002, , text + ill. p. 33 – ISBN 1-874817-31-6
Other press coverage
The Cape Times, Cape Town - 14th May, 1966 (portrait bust of Phyllis Spira)
ARTLOOK 1 Johannesburg - 1966 (November), p. 12
ARTLOOK 9 Johannesburg - 1967 (August), p. 12 (ill. busts of W.E.G. Louw and Kenneth Bakker)
ARTLOOK 16 Johannesburg - 1968 (March), p. 10 (ill. of bust of Frank Spears and Lippy Lipshitz)
ARTLOOK 27 Johannesburg - 1969 (February), p. 26 (ill. busts of Dr O. Wollheim, Dr. T.E. Dönges, Gregoire Boonzaier)
ARTLOOK 39 Johannesburg - 1970 (February), p. 9 (A Tribute by Louis Franklin Freed)
Updated 10th December, 2012