Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 8 November 2021

Contemporary Sale

Sold for

ZAR 773 840
Lot 106
  • William Kentridge; Skeletal Horse
  • William Kentridge; Skeletal Horse
  • William Kentridge; Skeletal Horse
  • William Kentridge; Skeletal Horse
  • William Kentridge; Skeletal Horse
  • William Kentridge; Skeletal Horse


Lot Estimate
ZAR 600 000 - 800 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 773 840

About this Item

South African 1955-
Skeletal Horse
2017

signed and numbered EV 2/10 in red conté in the margin

 

lift-ground aquatint etching on 100% hemp Phumani handmade paper, mounted on raw cotton cloth
cloth size: 160 by 150cm; 187 by 176 by 6cm including frame

Notes

Published by Artist Proof Studio, this work from the Triumphs and Laments (2016) project was printed from 20 brass plates as an edition of 10 plus 7 proofs. A Certificate of Authenticity and notes about the production process accompany the lot.

Triumphs and Laments was a monumental ‘drawing’ project by William Kentridge using large-scale stencils and pressure-cleaning equipment to create images reflecting the artist’s personal interpretation of the history of the city on the walls that line the Tiber River in Rome. Kentridge’s technique was carried out in sequential steps, first from drawings made on paper (in charcoal and then in ink) to their translation on the travertine walls [using a technique] that subtracts the dark layer left on the stone blocks by pollution, vegetation and micro-organisms, through washing around the cut stencils with water. According to the author Gabriele Guercio, the figures’ monumental size (their triumph) is inseparable from their precarious state (their lament) since the frieze will inevitably fade away.1

1. Gabriele Guercio, in Carlos Basualdo (2018) William Kentridge: Triumph and Laments, Cologne: Walther König.

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