Modern and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale

Live Virtual Auction, 1 April 2025

Modern and Contemporary Art: Evening Sale

Current Bid

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Lot 215
  • William Kentridge; Head I, Four Paper Heads Series
  • William Kentridge; Head I, Four Paper Heads Series
  • William Kentridge; Head I, Four Paper Heads Series


Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 110 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item

South African 1955-
Head I, Four Paper Heads Series
2007

signed and numbered 7/25 in red conté

lithography, letterpress, scanned book pages, hand-colouring and chine collé
height: 37cm; width: 32,5cm; depth: 19cm

Notes

The present lot, from the series Four Paper Heads, is a sculptural, multi-faceted portrait that riffs off Pablo Picasso’s Absinthe Drinker series from 1914.1 Having to some extent created Soho and Felix – two of his most prominent characters – in his own image, Head I shows the artist working with the idea of collating multiple personalities in a single moment, much like how the great Cubists presented on canvas multiple viewpoints at the same time.1

1Mark Rosenthal (ed) (2009) William Kentridge: Five Themes, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 63.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 16 February 2019, lot 55.

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2011) Aspects of South African Art II: 1910–2010, Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits, another example from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaginated.

Lilian Tone (ed) (2013) William Kentridge: Fortuna, London: Thames & Hudson, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 48 and 49.

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