For the Love of Books
Aspire Art proudly presents VOLUMES, a Timed Online book auction taking place from 19-26 May. The special sale focuses on art books and books by and about artist and covers everything from rare and collectible ephemera to reference works and artist’s monographs.
Lot 1 - Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (2007) by various authors
Sold for R2,110
Lot 2 - .ZA Giovane Arte dal Sudafrika (2008) by various authors
Sold for R234
Lot 4 - Everyone Their Own Projector (2008) by William Kentridge
Sold for R1,231
Lot 5 - Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Südafrika (2007) edited by Neuer Berliner Kunstverien
Estimated at R800 - R1,200
Lot 6 - Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009) edited by Okwui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu
Sold for R2,814
Lot 9 - Architecture, Apartheid & After (1998) edited by Hilton Judin & Ivan Vladislavić
Sold for R1,172
Lot 10 - Olvida Quién Soy: Erase Me From Who I Am (2006) by Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
Estimated at R3,000 - R4,000
Lot 11 - Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South Africa Photography (2011) by Tamar Garb
Sold for R293
Lot 16 - Some Afrikaners Revisited (2007) by David Goldblatt, Antjie Krog and Ivor Powell
Sold for R1,407
Lot 17 - Women by Women: 50 Years of Women's Photography in South Africa (2006) by various editors
Sold for R704
Lot 19 - Four books on South African sculpture and installation
Sold for R176
Lot 21 - Two exhibition catalogues on South African art from international perspectives
Sold for R293
Lot 30 - Three catalogues on the Standard Bank Art collections and exhibitions
Sold for R821
Lot 33 - Seventeen exhibition catalogues and other art publications
Sold for R938
Lot 37 - Two books from the South African Art Library on Irma Stern and Maggie Laubser
Sold for R428
Lot 42 - William Kentridge: The Nose (2015) by William Kentridge, Sabine Schaschl & Jane Taylor
Sold for R1,759
Lot 44 - The Soho Chronicles: 10 Films by William Kentridge (2015) by Matthew Kentridge
Sold for R4,456
Lot 45 - Smoke Ashes Fable: William Kentridge in Bruges (2017) by Margaret K Koerner
Sold for R3,752
Lot 46 - William Kentridge: Notes Towards A Model Opera (2017) edited by Karen Marta
Sold for R1,642
Lot 47 - Doris Bloom | William Kentridge: Memory and Geography (1995) Afrikus Biennale catalogue
Sold for R3,986