The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2022 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s

Cedric Nunn

Kids refresh themselves in the afternoon Summer heat of Pienaar Sig. Nieu-Bethesda

No reserve

Reserves

Lot Closed

February 22, 05:16 PM GMT

Estimate

2,400 - 3,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Cedric Nunn

South African

b.1957

Kids refresh themselves in the afternoon Summer heat of Pienaar Sig. Nieu-Bethesda

editioned 1 of 5 + 3 AP on accompanying certificate of authenticity

silver gelatin print

49 by 60.5cm., 19¼ by 23¾in.

framed: 53.5 by 63.5cm., 21 by 25in.

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This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Cedric Nunn (b. 1957, South Africa) began making photographs and joined Afrapix, the South African photography association, in 1982 and was a member until it closed in 1990. He has continued to work independently as a documentary photographer, while also showing work in galleries and museums in South Africa and abroad. Nunn’s original and continued intent is to document his reality all the better to understand it and engage with it, and share these encounters widely.

Kids refresh themselves in the afternoon Summer heat of Pienaar Sig. Nieu-Bethesda is part of an ongoing trilogy project entitled ‘Joining the Thread: Surviving Dispossession, Genocide and Erasure. A Trilogy’. The entire trilogy project encompasses an exploration of the unsettled heritage of South Africa and its people.