Evening Sale

Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024

Evening Sale

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Lot 337
  • Keith Alexander; Rockship
  • Keith Alexander; Rockship
  • Keith Alexander; Rockship


Lot Estimate
ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 700 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item

South African 1946-1998
Rockship

signed and dated 89; inscribed with the artist's name and the title on a plaque adhered to the frame

oil on canvas
121 by 182cm excluding frame; 138 by 199 by 5cm including frame

Literature

David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 20.

Notes

"… they travelled in an elderly Mercedes Benz to the ghost towns of the southern Namib … On the artistic front, the result of this first desert encounter was for Alexander an intense love affair of another kind, which was to last for longer than a decade and yield some of the most striking realist and surrealist paintings ever made in South Africa."

David Robbins

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