Paul Edmunds

Notes

Another example from the edition is currently held in the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York.

The present lot, The Same But Different, marks the artist’s first foray into printmaking, following a suggestion by Clive van den Berg that Edmunds create a work for an upcoming group exhibition titled Images of Self. When beginning the linocut, the artist had little sense of how to approach the medium and instead chose to carve a meandering line starting from the center of the matrix, which then proceeded to follow itself across the composition.¹

The work and its various editions were subsequently exhibited several times, beginning with Clive van den Berg’s exhibition and eventually entering the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In a review of his 2001 Houding exhibition at João Ferreira Fine Art, Tracy Murinik described the work as “a linocut of red on white that resonates in a similar way, despite an entirely different physical format. It is Zen-like and hypnotic: a single fluid red line that plays out a pattern of ongoing slight ebb, with occasional subtle shifts in rhythm or breath, building to a body of pulsing lines.”²

^1. Paul Edmunds (no date) Paul Edmunds, Work in Print, online, accessed 20 January 2026.

^2. Tracy Murinik (2001) ArtThrob, 'Houding' - Paul Edmunds at João Ferreira Fine Art, online, accessed 20 January 2026.

Exhibited

Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, Images of Self, 2000, another example from the edition exhibited.

João Ferreira Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town, Houding, 7 November to 1 December 2002, another example from the edition exhibited.

Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg, Prints and Multiples III, 2 February to 30 March 2006, another example from the edition exhibited.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, 23 March to 29 August 2011, another example from the edition exhibited.

Provenance

Property of a Gentleman.