Strauss & co - 10 October 2016, Cape Town

624 William Joseph KENTRIDGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1 955- Sleeper and Ubu signed and numbered 29/50 in pencil etching, aquatint and drypoint, from 2 copper plates, on Velin d’Arches Blanc 300 gsm paper sheet size: 96 by 192cm R350 000–500 000 LITERATURE cf. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen. (2006) William Kentridge Prints , Johannesburg: David Krut Publishers, a comparative discussion about the Sleeper Series on page 66. Another example from the edition illustrated on page 67. “The Ubu Tells the Truth etchings were the starting point for a theatre production Ubu & The Truth Commission (1997). The Sleeper prints were made after the theatre production was completed. I had worked on a series of messy drawings of a naked man, sometimes enclosed by the white Ubu line drawing, trying to get some of the feel of the theatre production in them. With the first set of drypoints I had used a thumbprint and printed the heel of my hand to suggest the flesh texture. With the large drawings one has to pull shape and texture into the drawing on a larger scale. I wheeled a bicycle across the paper, hit it with 310