30th Sep, 2021 19:00
Modern & Contemporary Art
62
William Kentridge (South Africa 1955-)
Rumours and Impossibilities
colour screenprint on BFK rives 300gsm paper
Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: signed and numbered 27/30; embossed with the Caversham Press chop mark
Exhibited: 808 Gallery, Boston University Art Gallery, Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge, 8 February 8 to 27 March 2011, another example from the edition exhibited.; Annandale Galleries, William Kentridge: Universal Archive (Parts 7 – 23), 6 March – 26 April 2012, another example from this edition exhibited.
Sold for R133,800
Estimated at R150,000 - R250,000
colour screenprint on BFK rives 300gsm paper
Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: signed and numbered 27/30; embossed with the Caversham Press chop mark
Exhibited: 808 Gallery, Boston University Art Gallery, Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge, 8 February 8 to 27 March 2011, another example from the edition exhibited.; Annandale Galleries, William Kentridge: Universal Archive (Parts 7 – 23), 6 March – 26 April 2012, another example from this edition exhibited.
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image size: 160 x 108 cm; sheet size: 139 x 84 cm; size framed: 176.5 x 123 x 7 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg.
Notes:
William Kentridge’s impressive colour screen-print, based on a linocut titled Rumours, was created with Malcolm Christian at the Caversham Press. It bears the hallmarks of that medium which the artist first explored in 1976 through the now iconic image of his grandfather in a deck chair wearing a three-piece suit while on holiday in Muizenberg. The medium, with its linear patterns and strong contrasts of black and white – so suited to the subject – is cited by the artist as one of the sources for the character, Soho Eckstein, who first appeared in Kentridge’s 1989 film, Johannesburg: 2nd Greatest City After Paris and is the main protagonist in the Drawings for Projection cycle of nine films made between 1989 and 2003.
Kentridge’s practice allows for images to contain traces of past works while prefiguring works to come, as is evident in this large scale work that employs the black linear quality of his early linocuts as well as the use of bold colour, rare in the artist’s oeuvre. His inclusion of the text ‘Refuse the 7 Point Perspective’ highlights Kentridge’s conviction through years of art direction in films, as well as through constant drawing, that space can be occupied by different focal centres and viewed simultaneously from multiple viewpoints within a convincing narrative.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 30th Sep, 2021
Aspire Art Auctions brings a significant and insightfully compiled selection of top-quality modern and contemporary art to auction in Cape Town. The sale stars exceptional works by many of South Africa’s big signatures, including, William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Penny Siopis, Edoardo Villa, Sydney Kumalo and J.H Pierneef, amongst others. Also featured is an exciting collection of contemporary artists from elsewhere in Africa – Patrick Bongoy and Zemba Luzamba from the Congo, Moustapha Baïdi Oumarou from Cameroon and Gerald Chukwuma from Nigeria.
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