Monochrome: Modern and Contemporary Art

Timed Online Auction, 7 - 27 March 2023

Monochrome
About the Session

The monochrome session features artworks from big hitters such as William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Joni Brenner, Deborah Bell, and Irma Stern. Each work explores form through the manipulation of a material rather than through the addition of colour. 

Artworks from the sale will be displayed in a dedicated space at Strauss & Co’s new offices in Brickfield Canvas, 35 Brickfield Road, Woodstock. 

The monochrome session is an extended session that opens on Tuesday 7 March at 8 am and concludes at 2 pm on the 27th of March, closing in 1-minute intervals.


Sold for

ZAR 41 038
Lot 20
  • William Kentridge; Nose 5 - The Reputation of a Newspaper, from Suite of Thirty Etchings of Nose
  • William Kentridge; Nose 5 - The Reputation of a Newspaper, from Suite of Thirty Etchings of Nose
  • William Kentridge; Nose 5 - The Reputation of a Newspaper, from Suite of Thirty Etchings of Nose


Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 41 038

About this Item

South African 1955-
Nose 5 - The Reputation of a Newspaper, from Suite of Thirty Etchings of Nose

signed and numbered 21/50 in pencil and embossed with a David Krut Studio chopmark in the margin; dated 2007 and inscribed with the artist's name, title and medium on a Christie's auction label adhered to the reverse

sugar-lift aquatint on paper
image size: 20 by 15cm; sheet size: 40 by 35cm; 45 by 40 by 3,5cm including frame

Provenance

Christie's, London, 19 September 2013, lot 260.

Private Collection, Cape Town.

Literature

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed) (2010) William Kentridge: Nose – Thirty Etchings, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, illustrated in colour, unpaginated.

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