Pretoria Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 21 July 2024

Session 1

Sold for

ZAR 46 900
Lot 178
  • Deborah Bell; Shining through the Shadows
  • Deborah Bell; Shining through the Shadows


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

About this Item

South African 1957-
Shining through the Shadows

signed, dated '99, numbered 3/35, inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin and embossed with The Caversham Press chopmark

etching and chine collé on hand-coloured paper
image size: 96 by 59cm; sheet size: 100 by 71cm, unframed

Notes

This work is an extension of themes that I have been working on for the last few years. I have been spending time in museums, and browsing through books and newspapers – recording images from history (which I see as reflecting the emotions of mankind) and weaving them together in poetic conjunctions to create some meaning of where we stand in relation to our past.
In this work, I write a poem which says in part " ... images sediment history's emotion, whilst I ride the wind, and span the light on the serpent's back, and feel at my feet the soil's turning to the sun The mirror cracked, time once more begun.". Shining through the Shadows is about a spiritual transformation which overlays an accretion of images and artefacts reflecting events and emotions of our history. A history remembered, yet transfigured – a promise for the new millennium.

- Deborah Bell

Literature

Please change literature to:
Bettina Schultz (2004) Taxi-010, Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 29.

View all Deborah Bell lots for sale in this auction