Modern, Post War and Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 11 November 2019

Session One
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight
  • Deborah Bell; Little Morals, eight


Lot Estimate
ZAR 250 000 - 300 000

About this Item

South African 1957-
Little Morals, eight

each signed, dated 90 and numbered 41/45 in pencil in the margin; each printed with the title in the plate

etching
each sheet size: 32,5 by 44cm

Notes

Little Morals is a portfolio of etchings done in conjunction with Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge.

The series Little Morals (1990) is Deborah Bell’s contribution to her second collaborative project with William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins, the first being Hogarth in Johannesburg (1987). The images in this collaboration were inspired by the etchings and engravings of the eighteenth century Spanish artist Francisco Goya. According to Bell, ‘each image is its own ‘little moral’, the titles of which are based on his etchings, chosen for the poetic resonance between image and word. In A Last Judgement, for example, the shadow play suggests a curate and a lay-figure in debate or judgement of the scene behind them,’ the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.1

1. Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut, page 56.

Exhibited

Cassirer Gallery, Johannesburg; Gallery International, Cape Town; Taking Liberties, Durban; 1991.

Literature

Deborah Bell (2004) Deborah Bell, Taxi-010, Johannesburg: David Krut. Illustrated on pages 56 to 57.

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