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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.


242 lots offered      65.70% sold      ZAR 6 383 373
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Diane Victor; At 150 You Could Ask Alice Almost Anything
15 Apr 2024
Starting at ZAR 6 000
Diane Victor; Trojan III
15 Apr 2024
Starting at ZAR 8 000
Diane Victor; Going to the Dogs, triptych
15 Apr 2024
Starting at ZAR 15 000
Diane Victor; Abomakgereza
15 Apr 2024
Starting at ZAR 60 000
Diane Victor; Teaching Your Hyenas to Sing
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 257 950
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Ash
11 Mar 2024
Starting at ZAR 6 000
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Diane Victor; Blind Rise
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 9 967
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; The Raising of Comrade Lazarus, Dirty Doctors series
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Afrikaanse Taalatlas
19 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 14 070
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Diane Victor; Woman and Bull Terrier
12 Feb 2024
Starting at ZAR 60 000
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Diane Victor; Untitled (The Watchers)
12 Feb 2024
Starting at ZAR 12 000
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Diane Victor; Sky God Meets the Ringmaster
27 Nov 2023
Starting at ZAR 12 000
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Results in green indicate post sales.