Day Sale: Re/Presentation of the Figure

Timed Online Auction, 4 - 20 March 2024

Re/Presentation of the Figure
About the Session

All human bodies are shaped, fashioned and deciphered according to the prevailing cultural, social, and political order which inform the notion of the human form within a particular society.

There is an enduring presence of body images in the history of art often with entrenched visual conventions. Figuration is a powerful conceptual thread linking historical, traditional, modernist, and contemporary art in Africa. Since the early 90s the practice of art and how the body is expressed, viewed, and received entered a new paradigm. Artists broke away from 20th century conventions, challenged boundaries and interrogated what it means to be within social, class, racial, sexual and gender paradigms and explored identity within these cultural contexts.

Re/Presentation of the Figure exemplifies this conceptual thread as modern and contemporary artists express the body though painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and woven images.


Sold for

ZAR 46 900
Lot 134
  • Pablo Picasso; Sous le Feux de la Rampe: “Au Viol!”
  • Pablo Picasso; Sous le Feux de la Rampe: “Au Viol!”
  • Pablo Picasso; Sous le Feux de la Rampe: “Au Viol!”


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 46 900

About this Item

Spanish 1881-1973
Sous le Feux de la Rampe: “Au Viol!”

stamped with the artist's signature and numbered 31/50 in pencil in the margin

aquatint and etching on paper
image size: 22 by 32cm; 87,5 by 96 by 4cm including frame

Literature

George Bloch (1979) Picasso: Volume IV: Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1970–1972 – Supplements I and II, Berne: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, another impression from the edition illustrated on page 230, cat. no. 1415.

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