Art for the Arch Auction for the Tutu Legacy Fund

Live Virtual Auction, 22 September 2021

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 7 035
Lot 72
  • Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro); TRC Cliff
  • Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro); TRC Cliff
  • Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro); TRC Cliff


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 6 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 035

About this Item

South African 1958-
TRC Cliff

signed and dated 5.97 on the print; signed, dated 2021 and numbered 4/25 in pencil in the margin

pigment ink on cotton rag paper, ink on paper with digital background colour
image size: 25 by 29,5cm; sheet size: 36 by 36,5cm; 36,5 by 36,5 by 3cm including frame

Notes

Zapiro was born in 1958 as Jonathan Shapiro, in Cape Town, South Africa. After completing a Fine Arts degree at the University of Cape Town and completing his two-year conscription to the South African army, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and went on to pursue a media degree at the School of Visual Art in New York. His socio-political commentary through satirical cartoons has been published internationally and locally. He has appeared as the editorial cartoonist for the Sowetan; Cape Argus; Mail & Guardian; Sunday Times and now the Daily Maverick. Zapiro's caricatures also appear in the form of puppets on the satirical television and web show ZANews he helped launch in 2009 alongside producer Thierry Cassuto.

Provenance

Donated by the artist.

Framing courtesy of Maxwoods Framers and Gilders.

Literature

TRC Cliff was previously published in Rhodes Journalism Review, 1997.

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