South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Online-Only Auction, 29 January - 5 February 2018

Works on Paper

Sold for

ZAR 14 052
Lot 411
  • Wim Botha; Untitled (Skull Drawing 4)
  • Wim Botha; Untitled (Skull Drawing 4)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 18 000 - 24 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 052

About this Item

South African 1974-
Untitled (Skull Drawing 4)
executed in 2010

the artist's name, date, title and medium on a label adhered to the reverse

charcoal on paper
99 by 69cm excluding frame; 108 by 77 by 5cm including frame

Notes

Accompanied by a certificates of authenticity signed by Wim Botha.

Wim Botha studied art at the University of Pretoria where his teachers included Diane Victor. Like his mentor, Botha is an accomplished draughtsman whose art synthesises classical western figuration and iconography with South African themes. This quartet of drawings was first exhibited on a solo exhibition titled All This at Michael Stevenson’s Cape Town gallery in 2011. The exhibition included meticulous natural history studies of animal skulls in pencil and more expressive drawings in charcoal of hominid skulls, trees and also of the sculptural busts that appeared in his two large-scale sculptural installations on the same exhibition. The architectonics of the human form is a point of enquiry for Botha. In 2009, also in Cape Town, he exhibited an installation titled Joburg Altarpiece (2009); it comprised eight linocuts of human skeletons, their poses based on historical paintings and sculptures.

Provenance

Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town.

Exhibited

Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Wim Botha: All This, 20 January to 26 February 2011.

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