South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 6 February 2012
Part 3 - Furniture & Fine Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 35 648
About this Item
South African 1961-
Africa
signed with the artist's initials and numbered 1/15
painted bronze
height: 28cm
Notes
A public sculpture of this subject was deemed so controversial that city officials nearly prevented its planned installation in St George's Mall, Cape Town. Murray cast a generically African figure sculpture in bronze, violently disturbing the integrity of its surface and identity by appending little manic models of cartoon character Bart Simpson's head. It stands over three metres high and is illustrated in the Standard Bank Young Artist Johannesburg 2002 catalogue, White Like Me, Brett Murray, on page 7
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