Pretoria Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 21 July 2024

Session 1

Sold for

ZAR 199 325
Lot 157
  • Norman Catherine; Requiem
  • Norman Catherine; Requiem
  • Norman Catherine; Requiem


Lot Estimate
ZAR 140 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 199 325

About this Item

South African 1949-
Requiem

signed and dated 1993; inscribed with the title on the reverse

oil stick on paper
136 by 118cm excluding frame; 156,5 by 139,5cm including frame

Exhibited

Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Water, the [Delicate] Thread of Life, 27 July to 1 October 2011.

Literature

Goodman Gallery (2000) Norman Catherine, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 112.

Notes

In the epic Requiem (1994) … a monumental Neptune-like figure emerges from the water with fish in hand. This is, of course, loaded with Christian symbolism. It refers to the New Testament parable of the fish and the loaves. It is during this phase that Catherine also returns to the etchings of the walls and empty edifices of his earlier years.
- Hazel Friedman

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