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Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024

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Lot 373
  • William Kentridge; Sleeper (Red)
  • William Kentridge; Sleeper (Red)
  • William Kentridge; Sleeper (Red)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 600 000 - 800 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 500 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item

South African 1955-
Sleeper (Red)

signed and numbered 40/50 in pencil

colour etching, drypoint and aquatint on wove paper
97 by 191cm excluding frame; 113 by 207,5 by 6,5cm including frame

Notes

The Ubu Tells the Truth etchings were the starting point for a theatre production Ubu & the Truth Commission (1997). The Sleeper prints were made after the theatre production was completed. I had worked on a series of messy drawings of a naked man, sometimes enclosed by the white Ubu line drawing, trying to get some of the feel of the theatre production in them. With the first set of drypoints I had used a thumbprint and printed the heel of my hand to suggest the flesh texture. With the large drawings one has to pull the shape and texture into the drawing on a larger scale. I wheeled a bicycle over the paper, hit it with a charcoalimpregnated silk rope, invited children and cats to walk over it, spattered it freely with pigment. The Sleeper series used a range of materials and objects placed in soft ground to try to effect the same damage upon the paper.
- William Kentridge

Literature

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed.) (2006) William Kentridge Prints, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 68 and 69.

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