Irene Sieberger
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Lot 17*,AR
William Kentridge(B. 1955)Sister Box
2016
2016
24 March 2021, 17:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£35,000 - £55,000
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William Kentridge (B. 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 by 21.5 by 36 cm.
17 11/16 by 8 7/16 by 14 3/16 in.
This work was executed in 2016, and is from an edition of nine numbered versions plus three artist's proofs.
2016
stamped with the artist's initials, numbered 5/9 and stamped with the Workhorse Bronze Foundry mark
oil on bronze
45 by 21.5 by 36 cm.
17 11/16 by 8 7/16 by 14 3/16 in.
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
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sculptures of classical antiquity (which we see as white marble, but which were originally painted) are particular historical references for the series.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.