Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 10 63 NORMAN CLIVE CATHERINE SOUTH AFRICAN 1949– Night Shift signed, dated 2012, numbered BAT in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin linocut sheet size: 107 by 136 cm; image size: 89 by 119 cm R20 000 – 30 000 Norman Catherine , born in 1949, is an artist and sculptor based in Johannesburg. He is from East London, South Africa where he studied art at the East London Technical School of Art. His first solo exhibition was in 1969, and subsequently he has had 25 solo exhibitions spanning the last thirty years. His work is displayed in numerous public and private collections, internationally and locally. Catherine works in an assortment of media, ranging from oil, acrylic, watercolour, and airbrush; as well as wood, fibreglass, wire, and metal. His visual trademarks have included rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms, rendered in brash cartoon colours. Catherine’s art has undergone several metamorphoses over the last 40 years. Each passing decade character-ized by different attributes; from the airbrush paintings of the 1970s and his paintings from the early 1990s, to his recent prints that have set the tone of future artworks being described as a ‘pre-millennial menagerie of anthropomorphic beasts’.