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Online-Only Auction, 16 - 23 August 2021

Prints and Multiples

Sold for

ZAR 46 900
Lot 362
  • William Kentridge; The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics
  • William Kentridge; The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics
  • William Kentridge; The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics
  • William Kentridge; The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics
  • William Kentridge; The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics
  • William Kentridge; The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics


Lot Estimate
ZAR 35 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 46 900

About this Item

South African 1955-
The Full Stop Swallows the Sentence, from Red Rubrics
2011

signed and numbered 16/16 in pencil in the margin

watercolour pigment on found pages
sheet size: 37 by 50,5cm; 60,5 by 72,5 by 4cm including frame

Notes

Work is from Red Rubrics, a suite of fourteen silkscreen prints.

Provenance

Purchased by the current owner from Artist Proof Studio, 2012.

Literature

William Kentridge. (2019) Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work, exhibition catalogue, 24 August 2019 to 23 March 2020, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCCA), Cape Town, South Africa. London: Koenig Books, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 266-267.

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