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Featured Collection: Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest stateman of our time, but not many people know he had another talent which only surfaced in his later years as an artist.

Drawings created by Nelson Mandela are now on display at the Fine Art Africa Gallery in Cape Town. These drawings were created by the hand of the man incarcerated for over 20 years.

They are of his prison cell on Robben Island, and of the Mvezo, the village in the Eastern Cape where he was born and laid to rest.

Mandela produced the drawings, using charcoal and pastel. Years after he stepped down as South Africa’s president, he had begun sketching in his dining room at his home in Johannesburg in 2001.

Mandela had previously agreed to produce pictures which could be sold for charity and Belgravia in London, which also represents, the now, King Charles, was initially appointed in 2002 to market them. The sale of the works follows his death at the age of 95 in 2013.

To prove authenticity, Mandela was filmed signing the pictures and limited-edition prints