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Diane Victor

South African 1964- 


Victor’s work is renowned for its biting critique of contemporary society, corruption, and the legacies of colonialism and apartheid. Her exceptional draughtsmanship and technical innovation in drawing and printmaking make her work instantly recognisable. She has taught drawing and printmaking at various South African institutions and has exhibited widely.

In 1988, Diane Victor, then a recent BA Fine Arts graduate from Wits, became the youngest recipient of the Volkskas Atelier Award (now the ABSA L’Atelier Award). In 2009, she originated and editioned a series of drypoints at the David Krut Workshop, called Birth of a Nation. She exhibited these works along with a series of smoke drawing portraits at David Krut Projects, New York, in 2010, returning to the US in January 2011 to show at Grinnell College in Iowa. Victor was the subject of TAXI-013 (a publication in the David Krut Publishing TAXI Art Book series) as well as Burning the Candle at Both Ends, a monograph published to coincide with Victor’s two-part exhibition, Ashes to Ashes and Smoke to Dust, at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery. Victor’s works are included in many collections locally and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art - both in New York, the New York Public Library, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.


270 lots offered      66.67% sold      ZAR 6 987 211
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Diane Victor; Untitled (Smoke Portrait)
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 9 967
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Service with a Smile
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 14 070
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Complex
9 Oct 2024
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
 
Diane Victor; Dore
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 8 794
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Down on the Farm, Disasters of Peace series
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Adam and Lilith
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 11 725
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Games without Frontiers
17 Sep 2024
Starting at ZAR 150 000
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Diane Victor; The monkey was off her back...
9 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 10 553
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Thinking of you
9 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Neither fish nor flesh
9 Sep 2024
Starting at ZAR 10 000
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Diane Victor; Blind Rise
9 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 8 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Hypoxis Rooperi
9 Sep 2024
Starting at ZAR 8 000
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Results in green indicate post sales.