16th Nov, 2023 18:00
20th Century & Contemporary Art
48
William Kentridge (South Africa 1955-)
Untitled IV (Horse with Raised Leg)
bronze
Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered FP along the base
Exhibited: Norval Foundation, Cape Town, 'Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture', 24 August 2019 to 20 March 2020, an example from the edition exhibited.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 'William Kentridge: Seeing Double', 16 January to 16 February 2008, an example from the edition exhibited.
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 'William Kentridge: What Will Come', 10 November to 14 December 2007, an example from the edition exhibited.
Literature: Kentridge, W. (2019). 'Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture', London: Koenig Books, illustrated on p.298.
Sold for R960,000
Estimated at R900,000 - R1,200,000
bronze
Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered FP along the base
Exhibited: Norval Foundation, Cape Town, 'Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture', 24 August 2019 to 20 March 2020, an example from the edition exhibited.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 'William Kentridge: Seeing Double', 16 January to 16 February 2008, an example from the edition exhibited.
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 'William Kentridge: What Will Come', 10 November to 14 December 2007, an example from the edition exhibited.
Literature: Kentridge, W. (2019). 'Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture', London: Koenig Books, illustrated on p.298.
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32 x 48 x 20 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Cape Town.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
An edition of this sculpture was first exhibited in William Kentridge’s 2007 solo exhibition What Will Come at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg before its 2008 debut in New York at Marian Goodman Gallery in Seeing Double. The work formed part of a series of equestrian sculptures created as part of a larger project which Kentridge developed as a prelude to his production of Dimitri Shostakovich’s opera, The Nose (1930), which opened in 2010 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
The horse features as a signature character in several bodies of work, taking on different forms as its image moves through the various mediums Kentridge chooses to work in - a drawing or etching, a tapestry, a performance on stage or a projection. Here, as a sculpture, it shows the artists’ masterful inventiveness when working in three-dimensional form. Horse with a Raised Leg is a visually compelling work, which sees its conceptual origin in a silhouette of a torn paper horse made for an animation, transformed into an intriguing constructed mixed media assemblage, then cast in bronze.
LEFT: William Kentridge, I am not me, the horse is not mine (Commissariat for Enlightenment), 2008.
CENTER: William Kentridge, Untitled (Horse on Map). Drawing for the opera The Nose, 2010. Courtesy: SAFFCA Collection.
RIGHT: William Kentridge, Deconstructed Horse, 2009.
COLLECTIONS
The artist is represented in numerous local collections, notably, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; George Eastman Museum, New York; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) Kalamazoo; Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, Norval Foundation, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago.
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Auction: 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 16th Nov, 2023
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