From the Professor Jan K Coetzee Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 9 November 2021

From the Professor Jan K Coetzee Collection

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ZAR 170 700
Lot 309
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five
  • William Kentridge; Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five


Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 170 700

About this Item

South African 1955-
Il Sole 24 Ore/l’Avanzata Inesorabile, five

each signed, dated 2007, numbered 24/50 in pencil and embossed with the David Krut Workshop and Jillian Ross chopmarks in the margin

sugarlift etching
each image size: 15 by 20cm; 59 by 49 by 2,5cm including frame

Notes

This set of images stands out as one of the most recognisable iconographic markers in Kentridge’s career. Four of the five images were originally published – one a week – on the cover of the Sunday edition of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The images refer on the one hand to Italian art history – The Massacre of the Innocents by Giotto di Bondone – and on the other hand to more contemporary Italian history, particularly the war in the 1930s between Italy and present-day Ethiopia (then Abyssinia).
The title of the main piece l’Avanzata Inesorabile/The Massacre of the Innocents, clearly points to Kentridge’s stance against colonialism, domination and exploitation. The reference to the world walking on stilts, the gas mask on its hind legs, and the newspaper articles, emphasise the immediate and ongoing political and socio-economic consequences of the conflicts, repressions, struggles and ecological disasters imposed by a power from one continent on another.
In the recent exhibition catalogue of Kentridge’s major retrospective of drawings at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in 2019/2020, Il Solo 24 Ore took a prominent place as one of the 15 themes that highlighted his oeuvre and the chronology of his work.

 

Literature

Lilian Tone (ed) (2013) William Kentridge: Fortuna, London: Thames & Hudson, illustrated on pages 80 to 89.

Mark Rosenthal (ed) (2009) William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Norton Museum of Art, illustrated on page 193.

William Kentridge (2019) Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work, Cape Town: Koenig Books, pages 248 to 253.

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