William Kentridge
Head
LOT 501
William Kentridge
Head
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 1 000 000 - 1 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 1 251 800
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
South African 1955-
Head
1993
signed and inscribed 'State Proof'
drypoint, from 1 copper plate and 2 hand-painted templates on Arches paper
image size: 103,5 by 79cm; sheet size: 121 by 91cm; 135 by 104 by 6cm including frame
Provenance
Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 6 February 2012, lot 660.
Private Collection.
Literature
Kendell Geers (ed) (1997) Contemporary South African Art - The Gencor Collection, Johannesburg, another of the edition illustrated on the front cover and page 22.
Bronwen Law-Viljoen (ed) (2006)William Kentridge Prints, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, another of the edition illustrated on page 46.
Bronwen Law-Viljoen (ed) (2008) Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, another of the edition illustrated on page 139.
Notes
This work is from an edition of 15 prints plus various different colour states.
More from 19th Century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Wine
Lady with a Chiffon Scarf in her Mouth, from the Fan Series
ZAR 25 000 - 30 000
Figure of a Boy
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Trinity Fetish (Straight Dress II, XXX, Mercy Seat), three
ZAR 100 000 - 150 000
Zeno II: Soldiers/Italian Front
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Rhino
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
Portrait of Martin Luther King
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000