Deborah Bell
Confession
Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 180 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 193 460
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
South African 1957-
Confession
signed; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and dated 1989 on the reverse
oil on canvas
152,5 by 76,5cm excluding frame; 155 by 79 by 6cm including frame
Notes
"These paintings of lovers in different positions of embrace powerfully depict the anguish of desire, a struggle of wills in which the woman shifts and twists towards and away from the man, desiring consummation yet fearful of the intrusion."1
1. Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, page 13.
Provenance
The Professor Leon Strydom Collection.
Literature
Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, a similar example, Lovers in a Cinema, South African National Gallery, illustrated on page 13.
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