Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 16 February 2019

Contemporary Auction

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ZAR 31 864
Lot 8
  • Claudette Schreuders; The Guilty Bystander


Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 31 864

About this Item

South African 1973-
The Guilty Bystander
signed, dated 2018, numbered 3/30, inscribed with the title and embossed with The Artists' Press chop mark in the margin
five colour lithograph
sheet size: 108 by 65cm

Notes

A guilty bystander is one who observes something – an incident, a crime, etc. – but does not intervene. Claudette Schreuders’ The Guilty Bystander stands with her hands clasped behind her back, contemplating her surroundings: seeing something, but saying nothing. This present lot is based on a wooden sculpture of the same name that was the central figure in Schreuders' 2017 solo exhibition The Bystander at Stevenson, Johannesburg. Many of her prints “are studies of her sculptured figures. Produced after the sculptures have gone out into the world, the prints are a means of revisiting and reflecting on these works, but also have a singular, distinctive character of their own.”1 These works retain the static, sculptural characteristics of the original object but with a livelier, painterly rendering.  

1. Stevenson. (2009) Claudette Schreuders: Recent Prints, [Online], Available: http://archive.stevenson.info/exhibitions/schreuders/index2009.htm [7 December 2018].

Provenance

Donated by the artist.

The proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Greatmore Studio Trust.

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