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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signed, dated 06, numbered 22/30, inscribed with the title in pencil and embossed with the David Krut and Tim Foulds chopmark in the margin
Notes
“I have a sense of having lived many,
many times on this earth.
I have fleeting memories and visions of
landscapes and cities.
When I walk through museums, I am
drawn to this greater memory of Self
which extends far beyond human
existence.
When I work on my sculptures, they
reveal themselves to me.
I don’t feel that I consciously make them,
yet I know exactly how to make them.
It is as if I made them before, as if I had
been them before.
I am the lovers walking in the desert. I am
the solitary figure of Ulysses.
I am the floating Magdel spoons. I am the
Horse and Rider.
I am the Unearthed and the Sentinels
holding my world in focus.
All these people are on a journey and it is
my journey.
I cannot create anything that is not
myself.
I cannot experience what I have not owned.
Male or female, I am all.”
—Deborah Bell1
1. Deborah Bell in Pippa Stein (2004) Taxi-010 Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, page 39.
Provenance
David Krut, Johannesburg, 2008.
The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.
Literature
Juliet White (2010) Deborah Bell's Alchemy, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, illustrated on page 51.
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