Evening Sale

Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024

Evening Sale

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ZAR 623 835
Lot 359
  • Keith Alexander; Hell's Kloof
  • Keith Alexander; Hell's Kloof
  • Keith Alexander; Hell's Kloof
  • Keith Alexander; Hell's Kloof
  • Keith Alexander; Hell's Kloof
  • Keith Alexander; Hell's Kloof


Lot Estimate
ZAR 500 000 - 700 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 623 835
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item

South African 1946-1998
Hell's Kloof

signed and dated 87; inscribed with the artist's name, the date and the title on a plaque adhered to the frame

oil on canvas
90,5 by 151,5cm excluding frame; 107 by 167,5 by 7cm including frame

Notes

"Yet, almost from the start, plain realism was overlaid with an additional quality: ‘I had sought a new artistic method by which I could best express my emotions … But the new way I found came not so much from the realistic treatment of my subjects as from the atmosphere I was able to create inside realistic work. The atmosphere became the real vehicle for my most satisfying self-expression.’ It is this development, above any other, that has brought that characteristic depth to so much of his work. The desire to create an atmosphere rather than depict a flat scene was so deeply felt, and the artist was very quickly so good at it, that almost from the outset a quality of ambiguity, even of transfiguration, began to invade Alexander’s canvases. In short, his subjects began to have the capacity to evoke much more than their literal realities."
David Robbins

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