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Making Impressions: Deborah Bell & David Krut, Collaboration in Print

9 Jun 2025

Strauss & Co Shines Light on Printmaking Through a New Sale; ‘Making Impressions: Deborah Bell & David Krut, Collaboration in Print’

Strauss & Co is pleased to present a collection of prints by acclaimed South African artist Deborah Bell — ‘Making Impressions: Deborah Bell & David Krut on their Collaboration in Print’. The Timed Online Auction, closing on Wednesday, 18th June at 2 pm, highlights the multidecade collaboration between the artist and master printer David Krut Projects. 

The auction features thirty-four works across multiple printmaking techniques, including drypoint, etching and monotypes, depicting contorted figures, horses in piaffe, wolf caves and lions. 

Works on paper represent an ideal entry point for both emerging and seasoned collectors. The medium’s accessibility allows new collectors to build their collections while providing established collectors opportunities to deepen their engagement. Bell’s works on paper highlight a sense of immediacy and openness to experimentation and shine a light on the medium’s intrinsic intimacy and versatility. Highlights in the sale include Museum Solstice (estimate R 15 000 – R20 000), a monotype charescteristic of Bell’s dark and deeply evocative visual language alongside Wolf Cave (R 40 000 – R60 000) depicting two gholstly figures seated in a curve while a third hovers awkwardly in the background, a theme that is repeated in the work She Wolf (R 90 000 – R120 000) rendered as a four plate etching, drypoint, spitbite and aquatint on two sheets of paper joined in the centre. 

Often, Bell draws from art historical and literature references as seen in the works Ulysses I, II and III (estimate R 18 000 – R24 000), Harmonia (estimate R 15 000 – R20 000) and Reveal (estimate R 7 000 – R9 000), a work referencing Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas. Created in 1656, the work has become one of the most well-known and critically analysed works in art history, claimed for its complex composition. 

‘Making Impressions: Deborah Bell & David Krut on their Collaboration in Print’ celebrates Bell’s recognisable visual language – stark, symbolic, and contemplative – drawing from diverse cultural and philosophical traditions while emerging from a personal vision.

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