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 8 208
Lot 47
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men
  • John Muafangejo; Disadvantage of Fighting for Men


Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 8 208

About this Item

Namibian 1943-1987
Disadvantage of Fighting for Men

signed, dated 1974 and numbered 17/100 in pencil in the margin; inscribed with the title in the block

woodcut on paper
image size: 39,5 by 38,5cm; sheet size: 61 by 43,5cm, unframed

Provenance

Orde Levinson Collection.

Literature

Orde Levinson (1992) I was Lonelyness: The Complete Graphic Works of John Muafangejo, Cape Town: Struik, catalogue number 95.

Orde Levinson (2020) Visions of Love and Sorrow: The Art of John Muafangejo, Windhoek: Kuiseb, illustrated on page 147 as figure 122.

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