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10 WITS ARTS MUSEUM ENDOWMENT AUCTION 1 Claudette Schreuders (b.1973) Public figure Six colour chine collé, lithograph 76 x 49 cm A/P Edition 35 2009 Donated by the artist R10 000 – 15 000 Claudette Schreuders, a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, was born in Pretoria and currently lives and works in Cape Town. Though mostly known for her sculptural figures, Schreuders has also extensively worked with lithography (hand-printed by Mark Attwood of The Artists’Press), to help her ‘record and document’the process of sculpting. This particular print, Public Figure , was based on her namesake sculpture displayed in the Afterlife exhibition, held at the Stevenson Gallery in 2007. In its form, the figure echoes the pose of a Greek kouros statue, hands hanging by her sides and one leg subtly striding forwards. According to the gallery, it ‘invokes the long tradition of public commemorative sculpture and, on a more personal level, the disjunction between our private and public selves.’  LdB