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Lot 19*,AR

William Kentridge
(born 1955)
Sister Box, 2016

15 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£30,000 - £50,000

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William Kentridge (born 1955)

Sister Box, 2016
stamped with the artist's initials, numbered 5/9 and stamped with the Workhorse Bronze Foundry mark
oil on bronze
45 x 21.5 x 36cm (17 11/16 x 8 7/16 x 14 3/16in).

This work was executed in 2016, and is from an edition of nine numbered versions plus three artist's proofs.

Footnotes

Provenance
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg;
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2016.

Exhibited
Capetown, Zeitz MOCAA; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Why Should I Hesitate : Putting Drawings to Work, 2019-2020, pp. 281 - 283, another example illustrated in colour

Literature
William Kentridge, Sean O'Toole et al, Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work, (Cape Town: Zeitz MOCAA, London: Konig Books, 2019), pp. 270 and 315. (illustrated)

Sister Box is part of a series of hand-painted bronzes titled Three Sisters. The sculptures are experiments in 'trompe l'oeil', visual illusions, deceiving the eye; cardboard and wood sculptures are turned into bronze, which is painted to look like cardboard and wood. Picasso's Glass of Absinthe and polychrome sculptures of classical antiquity (which we see as white marble, but which were originally painted) are particular historical references for the series. As is Kentridge's hallmark, these series of painted bronze sculptures interweave symbols as disparate as Chinese maps and scraps torn from a 1906 South African cash book.

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