The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
Live Virtual Auction, 20 September 2022
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection
About the SessionStrauss & Co is pleased to present this extraordinary collection as the featured session this September Live Virtual Auction. An established insolvency practitioner with a passion for the arts, Oliver Powell's principal focus has been collecting South African painting, sculpture and works on paper made since 1950. Colour, graphic ingenuity and emotional weight are all attributes in an artwork that Powell is drawn to. Powell also emphasises the importance of his many encounters with artists. “There is so much value in meeting an artist,” says Powell. “Aspects and details of their life are reflected in what and how they paint.”
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About this Item
signed, numbered 32/40, inscribed with the title in pencil and embossed with the David Krut chopmark in the margin
Notes
Deborah Bell’s 2017 exhibition Uncovering Ancient Memory – 15 Years of Etching by Deborah Bell celebrates the start of Bell’s collaboration with David Krut Workshop in 2002 starting with the Ulysses series, the first editions printed at the DKW studio. Bell’s body of work has consistently delved into the realm of selfdiscovery and her subconscious memory; also using ancient Western and African myths and iconography to discovering the Self. All the time realising these discoveries through the exploration of various intaglio techniques and pushing theboundaries of printmaking.1
1. Elize de Beer, https://davidkrutprojects.com/exhibitions/45996/deborahbelluncovering-ancient-memory-15-years-of-etching, accessed 29 July 2022.
Provenance
David Krut, Johannesburg, 2008.
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.
Exhibited
David Krut Projects, Cape Town, Uncovering Ancient Memory – 15 Years of Etching by Deborah Bell, 9 December 2017 to 28 February 2018, another example from the edition was exhibited.
Literature
Juliet White (2010) Deborah Bell's Alchemy, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, illustrated on page 37.
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