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 235
  • William Kentridge; Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)
  • William Kentridge; Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)
  • William Kentridge; Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 380 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item

South African 1955-
Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)

signed, dated 88 and numbered 7/13 in pencil in the margin

colour screenprint on brown paper
sheet size: 163 by 98cm; 178,5 by 114 by 5cm including frame

Exhibited

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, William Kentridge Retrospective, 2001, another example from the edition exhibited.

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, William Kentridge Retrospective, 2002, another example from the edition exhibited.

Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, William Kentridge artworks from the WAM collections, 21 June to 13 August 2022, another example from the edition forms part of the Wits Art Museum permanent collection and was on display.

Literature

Dan Cameron, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and JM Coetzee (1999) William Kentridge, London: Phaidon, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 103.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001) William Kentridge, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art and New Museum of Contemporary Art, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 78 and 79.

Bronwyn Law Viljoen (ed) (2006) William Kentridge Prints, David Krut: Johannesburg, another example from the same edition illustrated in colour on pages 34 and 35.

Mark Rosenthal (2009) William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art and Yale University Press, another example from the same edition illustrated in colour on page 38.

Judith B Hecker (2010) William Kentridge: Trace: Prints from the Museum of Modern Art, New York: Museum of Modern Art, another example from the edition illustrated on page 58.

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