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Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024

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Lot 339
  • Keith Alexander; Ruin with Opulent Interior (Pomona)
  • Keith Alexander; Ruin with Opulent Interior (Pomona)
  • Keith Alexander; Ruin with Opulent Interior (Pomona)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 200 000 - 300 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 180 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item

South African 1946-1998
Ruin with Opulent Interior (Pomona)

signed and dated 94; inscribed with the artist's name, the date and the title on the reverse; inscribed with the title, the date and medium on a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist

acrylic on canvas
60 by 90,5cm excluding frame; 80 by 110,5 by 7cm including frame

Notes

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

“‘My fascination with the ruins became something of a family joke’, he recalled. Yet he always readily acknowledged the power of these early manifestations of the flimsiness and impermanence of seemingly solid structures: those rows of shattered houses, walls crashed into craters of rubble, sagging and splintered roofs, and the private interiors of rooms so rudely and incongruously exposed. Seeing them as he did at a time already characterised by the inevitable insecurities associated with travel, these images burned themselves into his imagination as prototypes of haunting destruction and loss.”

David Robbins

Literature

David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 164.

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