Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Silver and Jewellery

Online-Only Auction, 14 - 21 February 2022

Contemporary Art
  • Mikhael Subotzky; Johnny Fortune
  • Mikhael Subotzky; Johnny Fortune
  • Mikhael Subotzky; Johnny Fortune
  • Mikhael Subotzky; Johnny Fortune
  • Mikhael Subotzky; Johnny Fortune


Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000

About this Item

South African 1981-
Johnny Fortune

signed, dated 2004, and numbered 5/60 in pencil in the margin

pigment inks on archival cotton rag paper
image size: 46,5 by 70cm; sheet size: 56 by 78cm, unframed

Notes

This lot is one of five works from Editions for ArtThrob Portfolio 2.

'Subotzky’s work in Pollsmoor Prison, in his final year at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, led to an extraordinarily engaged series of photographs of life inside that overcrowded institution, ‘Die Vier Hoeke’. This project took place in 2004, where he also worked with the prisoners teaching them to make their own photographs. This image is from that body of work.'1

1. https://artthrob.co.za/product/mikhael-subotzky-johnny-fortune/

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