Notes

‘Some of the specific ‘maid and madams’ images came from a play, Dikhitsheneng (‘in the kitchens’), which I made with Junction Avenue Theatre Company. There are a few images of men in pinstriped suits, which were based on images from another play, Security – in which I had played the part of a factory owner. The pinstriped suit in the play and hence in the images was borrowed from my brother-in-law, the only person I knew in my circle who had a regular job and need for such a garment. I printed the sets of prints at the etchings press at the Johannesburg Art Foundation … my estimate is that half the declared edition of thirty was printed’.¹

1.  William Kentridge, in Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed) (2006) William Kentridge Prints, David Krut Publishing: Johannesburg. Page 26.

Provenance

Die Kunskamer, Cape Town

Literature

cf. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed) (2006) William Kentridge Prints, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Similar examples are illustrated on pages 26 to 29.