Modern and Contemporary Art: Day Sale
Timed Online Auction, 10 October - 8 November 2023
Session One
Lot Estimate
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 211 050
About this Item
South African 1930-2018
Cells
signed, dated 31.12.1999 and numbered 2/6; inscribed with the artist's name, the title, medium and dated 2004 on a label adhered to the reverse
digital print on 100% cotton rag paper
47 by 309cm excluding frame; 56 by 318 by 4,5cm including frame
Notes
The cells depicted in Goldblatt’s image are the twenty-six isolation cells and lavatory in the former Number Four prison in the ‘Old Fort’ at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. The Fort was originally built as a prison by the Boers in 1893 for white male prisoners, both political and common law. Nelson Mandela was held there in 1956 before the Treason Trial and again after his arrest in 1962. The Old Fort precinct now houses South Africa’s Constitutional Court.
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