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Born 1937, Vrededorp Johannesburg. Legae was educated at the St. Cyrian Primary School and Madibane High School in Diepkloof, Soweto. He studied at the Polly Street and Jubilee Art Centres under Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo from 1959 to 1964. Kumalo retired in1964, and Legae became the art instructor at Jubilee Art Centre. In 1970 he was awarded a travel scholarship sponsored by USSALEP and visited the USA. From 1972 to 1974 he was a director of the art programme at ADMA. In 1975 Legae began working as a full-time artist. In 1980 and 1981 he was an instructor at FUBA. Until 1999, he lived in Soweto and was the Director of the Diepmeadow Town Council Art Project. He passed away on the 5th of January 1999 in Johannesburg. | |
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1966 | Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg (solo) South African tour, SA Breweries Prize Exhibition Republic Festival Art Exhibition, Pretoria |
| 1967 | Art SA Today, Durban Art Museum |
| 1968 | Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg |
| 1971 | South African Graphic Art, Holland, Belgium, West Germany Republic Festival Art Exhibition, Pretoria |
| 1974 | African Art, National Arts Society, Johannesburg Contemporary African Art, United States Information Services, Johannesburg |
| 1977 | World Wilderness Congress, Johannesburg |
| 1978 | Chicken Series, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1979 | Contemporary African Art in South Africa, Touring, RAU, PAM, UOFS, WHAG |
| 1980 | Sculpture 80 UNISA |
| 1981 | Black Art Today, Jabulani Standard Bank, Soweto |
| 1982 - 83 | Kunst aus Sudafrika, West Germany |
| 1985 | Tributaries, Africana Museum, Museum in Progress, Johannesburg Exhibition with Skotnes, Kumalo, Villa, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Amadlozi Exhibition, with Skotnes, Kumalo and Villa, New York, USA |
| 1986 - 87 | Johannesburg Art and Artists: Selection from a Century, Johannesburg Art Gallery |
| 1990 | Art 21, ’90 Basel, Goodman Gallery Stand, Switzerland |
| 1991 | Opening Exhibition, ICA, Johannesburg |
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1967 Art SA Today, Oppenheimer Sculpture Prize 1968 Merit award, Transvaal Academy 1972 Merril Foundation, USA provided funds for AMDA 1979 Honorable Mention, Valparaiso Biennale, Chile | |
| COMMISSIONS | |
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1986 Johannesburg Art Gallery Centenary Print Portfolio 1989 Point of Departure, Glynnwood Hospital, Benoni | |
| COLLECTIONS | |
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The South African National Gallery (Cape Town) The Durban Art Museum The William Humphries Gallery (Kimberley) The Gertrude Posel Gallery (Wits University) The Johannesburg Art Gallery The Pretoria Art Museum The University of Fort Hare Museum ( Alice) The Sanlam Collections (Johannesburg) Works in private collections in Belgium, England, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, and the United States of America |
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