Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
Timed Online Auction, 13 - 28 February 2023
Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
About the SessionIncluding Property of Collectors and The Harry Kantor Collection.
Harry Kantor (1934-2019), a Capetonian, moved to Harare in the late 1950s. He supported local art institutions such as the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Gallery Delta, serving as Chairman of both institutions. He promoted Zimbabwe's artists globally and amassed over 300 works, including European and indigenous African painters, Victorian and Chinese pieces. His collection includes significant roots of early Zimbabwean painting. Five paintings from his collection are on display at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Arts' exhibition "When We See Us", featuring African figurative art.
Lots 51-62 can be viewed on our current Timed Online Auction, and lot 75 in our Curatorial Voices Auction, both taking place on the 28th of February.
About this Item
signed, dated 2012, numbered 7/30, inscribed with the title in pencil, and embossed with a Warren Editions chop mark in the margin
Notes
'Portrait of Guy Nardy' is a commissioned portrait of a friend’s holiday romance from about 20 years ago (again a photographic encounter with a much younger self as other).1
1. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/05/lace-portrait-by-pierre-fouche/, accessed 5 January 2023.
Pierre Fouché introduces himself as a lacemaker. This designation highlights his interest in the techniques, materials, histories, and social relevance of textiles. Fouché achieved his MA in Fine Arts from the University of Stellenbosch in 2006. His respect for technique, tradition, and innovation has earned Fouché his place within the craft establishment as an internationally respected practitioner and teacher of contemporary bobbin lace. His penchant for arcane media and aesthetics has led his practice to include macramé, drawn thread embroidery, encaustic painting, and pinhole photography, as well as traditional painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Thematically, his work focuses on portraiture and the gaze, photography and representation, appropriation, and web-media cultures, as well as some forays into overt queer politics. Often informed by world art history, his desire to understand the machinery of contemporary visual cultures tends towards the Romantic. His consistent marriage of iconography with craftsmanship also contributes to this reading. Fouché has exhibited extensively worldwide, in both solo and group exhibitions, and he is represented in numerous public collections in South Africa and in Switzerland.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the current owners.
Property of Collectors.
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