Head of a Basuto

Head of a Basutho was created by the South African sculptor Frederick Johannes (Frikkie) Kruger (1907-1966) in 1931. Although this is a work that resembles an artwork titled The Accused by artist Anton van Wouw (1862-1945) the stylistic problems with the work, making it look like an copied enlargement rather than a sculpture, has always placed doubt in the artist. Furthermore with it only cast by the Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry in 1960 by a Dr Schmidt (A dentist of Pretoria) it put further doubt upon its authorship. The work was only reattributed to Kruger in 2020 after a mention of it was found in an art critique in 1931.