Aspire Art Auctions’ second Johannesburg sale offered a selection of some of the best works produced by local and international artists available on the local market. Offerings included Cameroonian-born, Belgium-based, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Chilean, Eugenio Dittborn, and South Africans, William Kentridge, Kendell Geers, Louis Maqhubela, Cecil Skotnes, Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, and Mohau Modisakeng, amongst others.
The sale was led by an international auction record of R1 200 320 achieved for a drawing, Children under Apartheid, by exiled South African artist Dumile Feni, as well as the successful sale of top international lot Golden Mask by renowned performance artist Marina Abramović.
Lot 1 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957)
Sold for R21,078
Lot 2 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957)
Sold for R10,539
Lot 3 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957)
Sold for R11,124
Lot 4 - Willem Hermanus Coetzer (South Africa 1900-1983)
Sold for R28,420
Lot 10 - Walter Whall Battiss (South Africa 1906-1982)
Sold for R19,907
Lot 22 - Alexander Rose-Innes (South Africa 1915-1996)
Sold for R31,830
Lot 36 - Raymond Hillary Andrews (South Africa 1948-)
Sold for R51,156
Lot 47 - Walter Whall Battiss (South Africa 1906-1982)
Sold for R34,104