R140,000
William Kentridge (South African 1955 - ) CODA, WAITING OUT THE RECESSION, LORD MAYOR OF DERBY ROAD and BUYING LONDON WITH THE TRUST MONEY, from the Industry and Idleness series, four works in the lot
Hard-ground etching, aquatint and drypoint
Each signed, dated ’87 and numbered 6/30 in pencil in the margin, WAITING OUT THE RECESSION signed in the plate and each work embossed with the Caversham Press chopmark
sheet size: 37,5 by 45cm each
PROVENANCE
Purchased directly from the artist
LITERATURE
Benezra, N., Cameron, D. and Boris, S. (2001), William Kentridge. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, illustrated on pp. 76-77
Law-Viljoen, B. (ed). (2006), William Kentridge Prints, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Illustrated on pp. 31-33
"I worked on a series of prints based on William Hogarth's work [...] Industry and Idleness, this time set in Johannesburg. Hogarth's moral fable shows the industrious apprentice marrying his boss's daughter and ending up as Lord Mayor of London, whilst the idle apprentice falls prey to vice (he gambles in the churchyard) and ends up hanged at Tyburn. In the South Africa of the 1980s this moral equivalent did not seem to hold, and my series shows the industrious man still doomed by circumstances beyond him - in this case his class and his race - while someone in a different position, of different colour and privilege, ends up wealthy and successful despite his idleness [...]"
-William Kentridge Prints, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, 2006, page 30
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