30th Sep, 2021 19:00
Modern & Contemporary Art
65
Brett Murray (South Africa 1961-)
Donkey (from the Sleep Sleep series)
bronze
Artwork date: 2005/6
Edition: from an edition of 5 + 1 AP
Exhibited: Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Sleep Sleep, 2006.; João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, Sleep Sleep, 2006.
Condition Report
The condition is mint.
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bronze
Artwork date: 2005/6
Edition: from an edition of 5 + 1 AP
Exhibited: Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Sleep Sleep, 2006.; João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, Sleep Sleep, 2006.
(1)
90 x 62 x 58 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg.
Notes:
Brett Murray’s bronze sculpture, Donkey sits just short of a meter in height. It was first exhibited in 2005 in his solo exhibition Sleep Sleep at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. The piece is vintage Murray - at the height of his powers as a sculptor and socio-political commentator.
Donkey forms part of a group of ongoing sculptures of animals that thematically poke fun at the political dispensation. The work is a stout and bulbous depiction of a donkey, rendered in the artist’s idiosyncratic visual grammar. A morbidly comical, anthropomorphized creature culled out of an Orwellian universe, Murray’s donkey is seated with hands stretched to the back. Strangely mythical, it’s in the register of a form that is part human, part animal, as genial and innocent as it is threatening. The work’s polished sheen gives it a shimmer that catches light with a dazzle that accentuates its bulging rounded shapes; giving it a visual dynamism that is central to its visual and physical enjoyability.
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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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