Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024
Evening Sale
About this Item
signed and numbered P.P in red conté; inscribed with the artist's name, the title, date, medium, numbered P/P 1/2 and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chopmark on a certificate of authenticity
Notes
"When I was nine years old, we planted two white stinkwoods in the garden. All my childhood I waited for the trees to grow, to be strong enough to hold a hammock. They refused. Twenty years later I returned to live in the house with my family and the trees were mature. Fifteen years later, the trees were magnificent. And then one of them was struck by lightning and died. The shock, not just the hole in the shade canopy, the gap in the garden, but rather the shaking of the belief that a tree is a gift for future generations or – if not for future generations – then at least for other people… its lifespan should be so much longer. How could the tree die before me? No. If the tree could die, how vulnerable are we or am I"
William Kentridge