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South African Ceramics, Selected Prints and Multiples
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 140
About this Item
South African 1955-
Act III Scene 1, 2017
signed, numbered EV 1/60, and embossed with the Artist Workshop chopmark
linocut on paper with hand colouring on Hahnemühle paper
image size: 30 by 18,5cm; sheet size: 44 by 32cm; 65 by 50,5 by 5,5cm including frame
Notes
The present lot is based on the artist’s drawings for the opera Lulu, William Kentridge’s version of Alban Berg’s 20th century modernist masterpiece. The opera Lulu, opened to great acclaim at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in late 2015.
Artthrob, online, https://artthrob.co.za/product/william-kentridge-act-iii-scene-1-2017/, accessed 15 September 2020.
Exhibited
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, 8 to 10 September 2017, illustrated in colour on page 1978.
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