Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 10 October 2016

South African & International Art

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ZAR 68 208
Lot 500
  • Jane Alexander; Shepherd


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 68 208

About this Item

South African 1959-
Shepherd

signed, dated 1986, numbered 9/25 and inscribed 'Print G. Goddard' and the title in pencil on the reverse

photomontage
image size: 30 by 21cm

Notes

This series of works use the cut and paste method to produce collages that are then re-photographed and printed as silver gelatin prints. "The montages, referencing and including imagery from the South African States of Emergency during the 1980s and photographs taken by the artist in East Berlin (DDR) in 1982, often with the insertion of the artist's mute human and animal-hybrid sculptures were a response to the discrimination, brutality and violence of the darkest times of apartheid and of German history..." 1
1. Jane Alexander: Photomontages 1981 - 1995, [Online], Available: http://www.stevenson.info/exhibition/340 [28 August 2016].

Literature

cf. Kendell Geers (1997) Contemporary South African Art, The Gencor Collection, Cape Town: National Book Printers. Another example from the edition illustrated on page 38.

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