Keith Alexander
Rockship
LOT 337
Keith Alexander
Rockship
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 2 058 750
Auction Catalogue
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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