Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

310 569 William KENTRIDGE SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– Sleeping on Glass, six executed in 1999 each signed and numbered 32/60 in pencil in the margin suite of 6 etchings with soft ground, aquatint and coloured pencil crayon, each from 1 copper plate, on spreads from found books each approximately: 22 by 28,5 cm R  –   LITERATURE Bronwyn Law-Viljoen. (2006) William Kentridge Prints , Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Other examples from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 80-83. Dan Cameron. (1999) William Kentridge , London: Phaidon Press. Other examples from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 134 and 135. Rosalind Krauss, Roger Malbert and Kate McCrickard. (2012) A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker, London: Hayward Publishing. Other examples from the edition illustrated on pages 52-55. ‘Sleeping on Glass (1999) was a film made to be projected onto a two- way mirror. As the image projected darkens, so the viewer is more aware of his or her reflection in the mirror. As the image lightens, the viewer sees less of his or her own image and more of the projected image. The etchings that come out of the film Sleeping on Glass use the palimpsest effect of printing onto chine collé pages such that the image is layered onto the page behind, yielding if not image and cause of image, image and a text that has some half-evident connection to the image.’ (Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, page 80)