'Black Christ' painter thrilled at homage to Luthuli.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa) | July 7, 2007 | Copyright

BYLINE: Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat

When Capetonian Ronald Harrison saw the space that would be provided for his paintings at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, it knocked him flat.

"It took my breath away," said the painter, whose artworks - in particular The Black Christ - caused a stir at the height of the apartheid era.

This painting, as well as a series of eight other paintings by Harrison depicted in the Spirit of Albert Luthuli collection, will form part of the Centre of Memory exhibition's Making Peace, to be launched a day after Madiba's birthday.

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