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William Kentridge (born 1955) Untitled (Nude walking with towel) 1991 image 1
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William Kentridge
(born 1955)
Untitled (Nude walking with towel) 1991

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

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William Kentridge (born 1955)

Untitled (Nude walking with towel) 1991
signed 'KENTRIDGE' (lower right)
charcoal and pastel on paper
76 x 46cm (29 15/16 x 18 1/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg;
A private collection.

The subject of the naked female form was one that the artist retured to many times around 1991.

In his fourth film Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old (1991), the arist explores the competition between Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitlebaum for the affections of Mrs Eckstein and features many representations of the naked Mrs Eckstein, it climaxes with Felix and Mrs Ecskstein making love in a drowning Johannesburg.

Here Kentridge produced many tender drawings of the naked Mrs Eckstein similar to the above work.

'Drawing for me is about fluidity' said Kentridge in an interview with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; 'drawing is a testing of ideas; a slow-motion version of thought. ...the uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning'

We are grateful to the William Kentridge Studio for confirming the title of this work.

Bibliography
Interview: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with William Kentridge in Cameron, D., Christov-Bakargiev, C. and Coetzee, J. M. (1999) William Kentridge. New York: Phaidon Press Inc. p. 8.

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