Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine

Online-Only Auction, 16 - 23 November 2020

Prints and Multiples

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ZAR 5 863
Lot 419
  • Brett Murray; Now You Have Touched the Women You Have Struck a Rock
  • Brett Murray; Now You Have Touched the Women You Have Struck a Rock
  • Brett Murray; Now You Have Touched the Women You Have Struck a Rock
  • Brett Murray; Now You Have Touched the Women You Have Struck a Rock
  • Brett Murray; Now You Have Touched the Women You Have Struck a Rock


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 5 863

About this Item

South African 1961-
Now You Have Touched the Women You Have Struck a Rock

signed, dated 2010 and numbered 7/22 in pencil in the margin

screenprint
image size: 80 by 54cm; 115,5 by 84,5 by 5cm including frame

Notes

The present lot reinterprets an original 1981 South African Women's Day poster design by Judy Seidman for Medu by changing the text from "You have dislodged a boulder; You will be crushed" to "You have dislodged a boulder; You will be president".

Literature

South African History Archive (1991) Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, the Seidman work that Murray has reinterpreted in the present lot is illustrated in colour on page 11 as figure 15.

Judy Seidman (2007) Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement, Johannesburg: STE Publishers and South African History Archives (SAHA), the Seidman work that Murray has reinterpreted in the present lot is illustrated in colour on page 122.

Clive Kellner and Sergio-Albo González (2009) Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, Johannesburg: Jacana, the Seidman work that Murray has reinterpreted in the present lot is illustrated in colour on page 111.

 

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