30th Sep, 2021 19:00

Modern & Contemporary Art

 
  Lot 67
 

67

William Kentridge (South Africa 1955-)
West Coast Landscapes, five

sugarlift aquatint etching with hand-painting printed on tosha washi paper with chine collé

Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: each signed and numbered 10/30 in pencil in the margin and embossed with a David Krut Workshop chop mark bottom left
Edition: number 10 from an edition of 30

Sold for R455,200
Estimated at R400,000 - R600,000


 

sugarlift aquatint etching with hand-painting printed on tosha washi paper with chine collé

Artwork date: 2010
Signature details: each signed and numbered 10/30 in pencil in the margin and embossed with a David Krut Workshop chop mark bottom left
Edition: number 10 from an edition of 30

(5)

sheet size: 45.5 x 45.5 cm each; framed size: 63.5 x 63.5 x 4.5 cm each

Provenance:

Private collection, Johannesburg.
David Krut, Johannesburg.

Includes:

Untitled (Scarecrow)

Untitled (Secateurs)

Untitled (Olifantsriviere)

Untitled (Skurfberg) and

Untitled (black chair)

Notes:

Two of the South Africa’s rarest types of wines are being made from vines, planted around 1900, to form a collection of six wines being made by Eben Sadie of Sadie Family Wines, a small, prestigious winery based in the southern Swartland, inland from Elands Bay on the Cape West Coast of South Africa. The collection will be called the Ouwingerdreeks (Old Vine Series), the labels for which were created by William Kentridge. The six labels are a combination of inkwash drawings and collage. Alongside these drawings Kentridge created a small series of five etchings that build upon and modify the imagery of the labels. These etchings were originated by the artist in collaboration with Master Printer Jillian Ross and David Krut Workshop (DKW), and editioned by Ross and her assistants.

The images of the prints were inspired by the visual and historical landscape of the Swartland region, and other valleys far up the West Coast in the Olifants Rivier region, where the vines were located. The prints were created through the full utilisation of techniques available to a printmaker. Delicate drypoint lines swirl through washes and splashes of pale grey spitbite aquatint, combined with the deep and solid marks of sugarlift aquatint and hardground etched lines. Handpainting, burnishing and attached fragile chine collé resolve the prints.

The imagery of the prints will be familiar to followers of Kentridge’s work. The humanised objects proceeding across the landscape are reminiscent of works such as Portage (2000) and those of L’Insorabile Avanzata (2007), while reimagining these object-figures within the landscape of the Swartland and the tools of wine-making: the secateurs that cut the fattened bunches of grapes from the vines, and the windmill that pumps life-giving water to the maturing vines. Alongside these two figures, there is a third: the world marching through the landscape on electric pylon legs. The two remaining images in the series re-imagine images that have appeared with Kentridge’s oeuvre previously: a South African landscape rich in connotations of colonization and embodied history, and a nude figure, gazed upon by the viewer as she undresses within the encircling arms of an imposing black chair.

Taken from David Krut Projects [https://davidkrutprojects.com/46317/west-coast-landscapes-by-william-kentridge]

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffKI47YHTFM

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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 30th Sep, 2021

Aspire Art Auctions brings a significant and insightfully compiled selection of top-quality modern and contemporary art to auction in Cape Town. The sale stars exceptional works by many of South Africa’s big signatures, including, William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Penny Siopis, Edoardo Villa, Sydney Kumalo and J.H Pierneef, amongst others. Also featured is an exciting collection of contemporary artists from elsewhere in Africa – Patrick Bongoy and Zemba Luzamba from the Congo, Moustapha Baïdi Oumarou from Cameroon and Gerald Chukwuma from Nigeria.

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