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

Online-Only Auction, 14 - 21 February 2022

Contemporary Art
  • Guy Tillim; Tshililo (right) and her friends share a one-roomed apartment in Cape Agulhas, Esselen Street, Hillbrow
  • Guy Tillim; Tshililo (right) and her friends share a one-roomed apartment in Cape Agulhas, Esselen Street, Hillbrow
  • Guy Tillim; Tshililo (right) and her friends share a one-roomed apartment in Cape Agulhas, Esselen Street, Hillbrow
  • Guy Tillim; Tshililo (right) and her friends share a one-roomed apartment in Cape Agulhas, Esselen Street, Hillbrow
  • Guy Tillim; Tshililo (right) and her friends share a one-roomed apartment in Cape Agulhas, Esselen Street, Hillbrow


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000

About this Item

South African 1962-
Tshililo (right) and her friends share a one-roomed apartment in Cape Agulhas, Esselen Street, Hillbrow

signed, dated 2004, numbered 5/60, and inscribed 'Hillbrow, Johannesburg', in pencil in the margin

pigment inks on archival cotton rag paper
image size: 35 by 52,5cm; sheet size: 42 by 59,5cm, unframed

Notes

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

'For his brilliantly observed studies of the life of the often beleaguered residents of Hillbrow, Johannesburg in their decaying and overcrowded environment, Guy won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2005, awarded by the Leica Camera Group in collaboration with Rencontres de la Photographie festival held in Arles, France.'1

1. https://artthrob.co.za/product/guy-tillim-tshililo-right-and-her-friends-share-a-one-roomed-apartment-in-cape-agulhas-esselen-street-hillbrow/

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