Modern and Contemporary Art
Timed Online Auction, 1 - 9 October 2023
Impression/Expression
Lot Estimate
ZAR 2 000 - 3 000
Location
Johannesburg
About this Item
South African 1943-2020
And Alien Tears Will Fill for Him Pity's Long Broken Urn
signed, dated '80, numbered 87/100 in pencil and embossed with the Henri Deprest, Paris, chopmark in the margin; inscribed with the title in the print; signed by the printer and stamped with his authentication on the reverse
lithograph on paper
image size: 40 by 54cm; sheet size: 49,5 by 65cm, unframed
Notes
'And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.' The lines come from Oscar Wilde's poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written in 1897, and are inscribed as the epitaph on his tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
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