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Live Auction, 17 February 2018

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ZAR 40 000 - 60 000

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Minnette Vári
South African 1968-
The Falls III
2008

inscribed with the artist's name, title, medium and numbered 1/5 on a Goodman Gallery label on the reverse

pigment print on cotton fibre paper
79 by 79cm excluding frame

Notes

"The composition is vertiginous, for earth whirls around Vári who appears tethered to it, unable to escape, a victim of history struggling to free herself from the past like our country itself."1 

1. Lloyd Pollack, The Falls [Online] Available: http://minnettevari.co.za/print-photo/the-falls-series. [12 January 2018]



Exhibited

Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Of Darkness and of Light, 29 January to 26 March 2016.

Literature

Sue Williamson. (2009) South African Art Now, New York: Collins Design. Page 254 and another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 255.

Tracy Murinik. (ed) (2006) Of Darkness and of Light: Minnetter Vári. Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg. Illustrated in colour on Page 98.

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