Modern and Contemporary Art: Day Sale

Timed Online Auction, 14 March - 1 April 2025

Modern and Contemporary Art: Day Sale

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ZAR 44 555
Lot 36
  • Jane Alexander; Ghost
  • Jane Alexander; Ghost
  • Jane Alexander; Ghost
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About this Item

South African 1959-
Ghost

signed, dated 2008, numbered 14/100 and inscribed with the title on the reverse

pigment print on cotton paper
image size: 31,5 by 37,5cm; 58 by 63 by 3cm including frame

Exhibited

The Cape Institute for Architecture, Cape Town, Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Region, 7 April to 6 May 2010, another example from the edition exhibited.

The limited edition digital projection was exhibited as 1 of 54 images projected in black and white as part of Survey: Cape of Good Hope:

La Centrale Électrique, Brussels, Security: Surveys From the Cape of Good Hope, 25 March to 21 August 2011.

The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Surveys: From the Cape of Good Hope, (a Project of the Museum for African Art), 2012.

Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, New York, Surveys: From the Cape of Good Hope, 2013.

Stevenson, Johannesburg, Survey: Cape of Good Hope (2005-9), 18 November, 2013 to 7 February 2014, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue.

Norval Foundation, Cape Town, We The People - 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, 5 December 2024 to 22 November 2025, another example from the edition exhibited.

Literature

Pep Subirós (ed) (2009) Jane Alexander: On Being Human, Great Britain: Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, illustrated on page 23.

Ashraf Jamal (2010) Jane Alexander: Hunger Artist, In Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Region, Johannesburg: Jacana Media, in association with the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, another example from the edition illustrated, unpaginated.

Pep Subirós (ed) (2011) Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope), New York: Museum for African Art and Actar, another example from the edition illustrated on page 65.

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