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 158 288
Lot 152
  • Blessing Ngobeni; Untitled
  • Blessing Ngobeni; Untitled


Lot Estimate
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 158 288

About this Item

South African 1985-
Untitled

signed and dated 2021

mixed media on canvas
178 by 162 by 6cm, unframed

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