Modern, Post War and Contemporary Art
Live Auction, 11 November 2019
Session One
Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 62 590
About this Item
South African 1915-2011
Interlocking (Bird)
1985
signed and numbered 3/6
bronze with green patina on a granite base
height: 29cm including base
Notes
After working mainly with constructions of steel pipes in the 1970s, Villa produced, in the mid-1980s, a series of organic, playful and sometimes erotic compositions or groups of intertwined figures with juxtapositions of rounded masses and angled planes. He referred to these works in bronze as 'conversations' between forms.
Literature
Chris de Klerk and Gerard de Kamper (2012) Villa in Bronze, Pretoria: University of Pretoria. Illustrated in colour on page 131.
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