Strauss & co - Wits Art Museum

WITS ARTS MUSEUM ENDOWMENT AUCTION 25 Joni Brenner, whose work encompasses a range of meditations on the human skull and on portraits of individuals, offers in these works a juxtaposition of two major South African heritage images. On the one hand is the image of the Taung Skull, rendered as a glowing profile evocation of one of the earliest ancestors of human kind. On the other, a set of four profile portraits of Professor Phillip Tobias, the successor to Raymond Dart, the discoverer of the Taung Skull. Through renderings of great delicacy, using the apparent fragility and luminosity of watercolour, Brenner creates a haunting presence of a person no longer with us, and a corner of history that was more fully explored in her major 2011 exhibition project called Life of Bone , to which these images relate. The works are accompanied by copies of the Life of Bone catalogue.  AN 15 part lot 15 part lot 15 part lot