Lot 16
  • 16

William Kentridge

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • William Kentridge
  • Landscape on Atlas Pages (India/The Nile)
  • signed and dated '99
  • charcoal on printed paper
  • 15 by 66 in. 38.1 by 167.7 cm.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 2000

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The joined sheets are hinged on the reverse to the backing board. There is a soft undulation, minor creasing and signs of wear to the edges, pale time staining, and irregular surface texture to the sheet, all due to the artist's use of found materials. There are artist’s pinholes to the sheets intermittently along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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Catalogue Note

"The landscape hides its history. The general nature of terrain and landscape as image is to appear as fact. The power of both the childhood landscapes I have referred to and of the paintings of people…is that they appear out of time. As if they would give us a truth other than their being a single moment in a process which precedes and will surpass the instant represented…The difficulty we have in holding onto passions, impressions, ways of seeing things, the way that things which seem to be indelibly imprinted on our memories still fade and become elusive, is mirrored in the way in which the terrain itself cannot hold onto the events played out upon it." 

William Kentridge, Dan Cameron, William Kentridge, London 1999, p. 126