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 9
  • David Goldblatt; Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg
  • David Goldblatt; Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg
  • David Goldblatt; Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg
  • David Goldblatt; Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg
  • David Goldblatt; Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg
  • David Goldblatt; Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 41 038

About this Item

South African 1930-2018
Doornfontein Synagogue, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg

Certificate of Authenticity signed by Graeme Williams, Paul Weinberg and Liza Essers, dated 30 August 2014, numbered 11/30 and inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium

silver gelatin print on fibre paper
image size: 37,5 by 47,5cm; sheet size: 41,5 by 51,5cm, unframed

Notes

A Certificate of Authenticity accompanies the lot.

The Doornfontein Synagogue (also called the Lions Shul, after the two cast iron lions that flank the entrance) is the oldest synagogue still in use in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1905 after a design by Morrie Jacob Harris and was once part of a thriving Jewish community of immigrants, many from Eastern Europe and the UK. Although most of its original community moved to the suburbs further north as the city's demographics changed during the twentieth century, it still holds weekly services.

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