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Lot 181
Sale 6126 - Modern & Contemporary Works of Art
Nov 4, 2012
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$3,500 -
4,500
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$3,500
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Lot Description
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE (SOUTH AFRICAN B. 1955) "THE NOSE"
2011, pencil signed, numbered 49/70; with wide margins, co-published by the Lincoln Center, LIST project and the artist in support of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Photogravure and drypoint with aquatint on wove paper.
image: 10 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (26.7 x 42.5cm)
sheet: 17 x 23 in. (43.1 x 58.4cm)
Unframed
note:
The present work was inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich's 1903 opera of the same title, which Mr. Kentridge directed and designed for New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2010. At the artist's request, half of this edition was sold to benefit The Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, which challenged the notion and leaders of apartheid beginning in the 1970's.