WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Drawing From "Tide Table" Minimum of Indolence

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 2004 

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat along the top edge, with artist pinholes throughout. The collaged elements are secure and intact and there is a slight undulation to the sheet. There are small tears to both lateral edges of the sheet near the bottom corners. Framed under glass.
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"Drawing is not simply a discrete part of the whole in Kentridge's art. It insinuates itself into the way he thinks and certainly into how he constructs images. Drawing is not a secondary medium to this artist. Talking with Kentridge, you get the sense that facing a sheet of paper with a graphite pencil or piece of charcoal in hand is not a preliminary activity but a primary one."  Michael Auping, "Double Lines" in Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, William Kentridge: Five Themes, 2009, p. 228