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 101 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957)
Sold for R181,888
Lot 104 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (South Africa 1886-1957)
Sold for R113,680
Lot 106 - Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp (South Africa 1907-1946)
Sold for R409,248
Lot 107 - Leonora Everard Haden (South Africa 1937-)
Sold for R73,892
Lot 108 - Leonora Everard-Haden (South Africa 1937-)
Sold for R73,892
Lot 114 - Edoardo Villa (Italy/South Africa 1915-2011)
Sold for R966,280
Lot 122 - Maggie Laubser (South Africa 1886-1973)
Sold for R1,023,120
Lot 123 - Walter Whall Battiss 9South Africa 1906-1982)
Sold for R454,720
Lot 126 - Walter Whall Battiss (South Africa 1906-1982)
Sold for R454,720
Lot 128 - Edoardo Villa (Italy/South Africa 1915-2011)
Sold for R397,880
Lot 133 - Edoardo Villa (Italy/South Africa 1915-2011)
Sold for R198,940
Lot 134 - Dumile Feni, Children under Apartheid
Sold for R1,250,480
Lot 137 - Ephraim Ngatane (South Africa 1938-1971)
Sold for R318,304