Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 16 March 2015

Cape & Colonial Silver, Furniture & Dec Arts, The Harvey Collection of Africana & SA & Int Art

Sold for

ZAR 17 052
Lot 509
  • Sue Williamson; What about El Max: We are like fish I and II, a pair
  • Sue Williamson; What about El Max: We are like fish I and II, a pair
  • Sue Williamson; What about El Max: We are like fish I and II, a pair


Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 17 052

About this Item

South African 1941-
What about El Max: We are like fish I and II, a pair

both signed, dated 2005 and numbered 3/6

colour photographic print
sheet size: 47,5 by 59cm

Notes

In 2005 Williamson worked with a group of Egyptian fishermen whose livelihood was threatened by the military and a petrochemical project. Williamson produced a series of graffiti interventions based on interviews, also photographic stills. She titled the project What about El Max?

Exhibited

The O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, OK/Biennale Cuvee 10 (a selection of the best works from biennales of the previous year), 2010, catalogue

The Wilfredo Lam Center on the Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba, Sue Williamson: The Truth is on the Walls, 2009, catalogue

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Sue Williamson: Other Voices, Other Cities, 2009
Wertz Gallery, Atlanta, USA, Sue Williamson: Hotels and Better Lives, 2007

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