Contemporary Art
Live Auction, 16 February 2019
Contemporary Auction
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
About this Item
South African 1964-
Parched, from the Seeking Refuge series
signed, dated 2008 and numbered ED 2/5 in pencil in the margin
archival pigment ink on cotton rag paper
image size: 102 by 144cm; sheet size: 112 by 154cm
Notes
Photo credit: Tony Meintjes.
Exhibited
Stevenson, Cape Town, Berni Searle: Recent Work 2007/2008, 4 September to 11 October 2008.
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, curated by Karen Milbourne, 22 April 2013 to 5 January 2014. Searle's video Seeking Refuge was on this exhibition.
Literature
Virginia MacKenny. (2013) 'Land Matters', Art South Africa, vol. 11. No. 4, Winter, page 44.
Sophie Perryer. (ed.) (2008) Bernie Searle: Recent Work 2007/2008. Illustrated in colour on page 51.
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