Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

179 561 Fred (Frederick Hutchison) PAGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1 908-1984 Buttons signed, dated 76 and inscribed with the title pen and ink over pencil 30,5 by 23,5cm R10 000–15 000 561 560 560 William Joseph KENTRIDGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1 955- Forswearing Bad Company, from the Industry and Idleness series dated 1986 and inscribed with the title in the plate; signed, dated ‘87, numbered 21/30 in pencil in the margin, and impressed with the Caversham Press chop mark hard ground etching, aquatint and drypoint image size: 33 by 28,5cm R28 000–34 000 LITERATURE Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed). (2006) William Kentridge Prints, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Illustrated on page 30. Warren Siebrits, (2002) States of Emergence: South Africa 1960-1990, Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art. Illustrated. Michael Sittenfeld (ed). (2001) William Kentridge. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art; NewYork: New Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. Illustrated on page 77. NOTES “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 . 2006, page 30