Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 16 February 2019

Contemporary Auction

Sold for

ZAR 56 900
Lot 67
  • Dan Halter; Tombstone For Rhodesia
  • Dan Halter; Tombstone For Rhodesia


Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 56 900

About this Item

Zimbabwean 1977-
Tombstone For Rhodesia
2016
engraved Zimbabwean black granite
40 by 69,5 by 6,5 cm

Notes

‘The Maxim gun was used by a small number of settlers to colonise the country they then called Rhodesia. Ninety years later, after a war against the colonial masters fought with the help of another weapon – the AK-47 – the country became Zimbabwe. These two guns can be seen as bookends for the colonial time of Rhodesia and this is its tombstone.’

Dan Halter. [Online], Available: http://danhalter.com/tombstone-forrhodesia- 2016/ [11 December 2018].

Exhibited

WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, Dan Halter: Patience Can Cook a Stone, 16 February to 28 March 2018.

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