Pretoria Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 21 July 2024
Session 1
Lot Estimate
ZAR 140 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 199 325
Location
Johannesburg
About this Item
South African 1949-
Requiem
signed and dated 1993; inscribed with the title on the reverse
oil stick on paper
136 by 118cm excluding frame; 156,5 by 139,5cm including frame
Exhibited
Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Water, the [Delicate] Thread of Life, 27 July to 1 October 2011.
Literature
Goodman Gallery (2000) Norman Catherine, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 112.
Notes
In the epic Requiem (1994) … a monumental Neptune-like figure emerges from the water with fish in hand. This is, of course, loaded with Christian symbolism. It refers to the New Testament parable of the fish and the loaves. It is during this phase that Catherine also returns to the etchings of the walls and empty edifices of his earlier years.
- Hazel Friedman
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