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Timed Online Auction, 25 October - 11 November 2024

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  • William Kentridge; Domestic Scenes 31: Security II: Seated Man in Waistcoat with Lamp + Telephone (2 States)
  • William Kentridge; Domestic Scenes 31: Security II: Seated Man in Waistcoat with Lamp + Telephone (2 States)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item

South African 1955-
Domestic Scenes 31: Security II: Seated Man in Waistcoat with Lamp + Telephone (2 States)

signed, dated '80 and numbered 14/30 in pencil in the margin

sugar-lift etching and drypoint on paper
image size: 11 by 11,5cm; sheet size: 28 by 38cm, unframed

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2022) William Kentridge: Prints and Posters 1974-1990 Volume 1.1, Göttingen: Steidl, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 250.

Warren Siebrits (2001) William Kentridge: Domestic Scenes, Göttingen: Steidl, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 76.

Notes

This is certainly a memory or an attitude from the play Security, in which the character I played wore my brother-in-law's pinstriped suit. He sits at an office desk, trying to proclaim the virtues of the company. The light is almost in its simplest form: a sugar-lift line drawing of its support. Lights in this series are almost always depicted from the side rather than from the top, as they often are in later works.

- William Kentridge

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