Strauss & co - 4 February 2013, Johannesburg

161 451 William Joseph KENTRIDGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1955 Forswearing Bad Company, from the Industry and Idleness series dated 1986 and inscribed with the title in the plate; signed, dated ‘87 and numbered 22/30 in pencil in the margin, and embossed with the Goodman Gallery stamp hard ground etching, aquatint and drypoint image size: 29,5 by 25cm R18 000 – 24 000 LITERATURE William Kentridge Prints , David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, 2006, page 30, illustrated Warren Siebrits, States of Emergence: South Africa 1960-1990 , Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, 2002, illustrated NOTES “I worked on a series of prints based onWilliam 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 30 452 William Joseph KENTRIDGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1955 Pap & Fish signed and numbered 4/13 in pencil in the margin lithograph image size: 21 by 30cm R15 000 – 20 000 451 452