Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 15 February 2020

Contemporary Art

Sold for

ZAR 398 300
Lot 67
  • Beezy Bailey; 1000 Year Dance Cure II


Lot Estimate
ZAR 350 000 - 500 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 398 300

About this Item

South African 1962-
1000 Year Dance Cure II

signed and numbered 1/8

bronze with blue powder-coating patina
height: 324cm, including base

Notes

Often Bailey’s works are accompanied by poems, such as ‘1000 Year Dance Cure’, in which he exhorts the world to dance a new dance, to abandon that which does not serve us, and to embrace each other in our humanity, and the earth in her service to us. The sources of his imagery are elusive. In his own words: “Frozen dreams, images and legends enter from my subconscious, the realm of my imagination. I act as a conduit for visual messages greater than I am”.1

 

1. Mary Corrigall (2016) ‘Art that Dances to the End of Pain’, Sunday Times, 20 November 2016.

 

Exhibited

CIRCA, Cape Town, Beezy Bailey: 1000 Year Dance Cure, 23 November to 14 December, 2016.

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