Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 64 103 WILLEM HENDRIK ADRIAAN BOSHOFF SOUTH AFRICAN 1951– Word Woes signed, dated 2014, numbered Archive Proof I/I in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin etching sheet size: 92,5 by 121 cm; image size: 74,5 by 108 cm R20 000 – 30 000 Willem Boshoff is an artist based in Johannesburg. He was born in in Vereeniging, South Africa. Boshoff studied at Technikon Witwatersrand, where he received a National Art Teacher’s Diploma (1974), a National Higher Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking (1980), and a Masters Diploma in Technology in Fine Art where he majored in Sculpture (1984). In his teaching career, he taught various art-related subjects to students at all levels. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg. Boshoff held his first exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (1981) and has subsequently exhibited locally and internationally; notably at the Museum for African Art, Washington D.C. and at Biennale’s in Johannesburg, São Paulo and Venice. Boshoff is known primarily for his conceptual installations that are frequently based on the exploration of language and are created in a range of materials ranging from stone to paper to sand.