Strauss & co - 17 February 2018, Cape Town

88 Strauss & co contemporary art auction 29 Minnette Vári SOUTH AFRICAN b1968 The Falls III 2008 inscribed with the artist’s name, title, medium and numbered 1/5 on a Goodman Gallery label on the reverse pigment print on cotton fibre paper 79 by 79cm R40 000 – 60 000 EXHIBITED Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Of Darkness and of Light , 29 January to 26 March 2016. LITERATURE Sue Williamson. (2009) South African Art Now , New York: Collins Design. Page 254 and another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 255. Tracy Murinik. (ed.) (2006) Of Darkness and of Light: Minnetter Vári . Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg. Illustrated in colour on page 98. 1. Lloyd Pollack, The Falls [Online] Available: http://minnettevari.co.za/print-photo/the-falls-series. [12 January 2018] “The composition is vertiginous, for earth whirls around Vári who appears tethered to it, unable to escape, a victim of history struggling to free herself from the past like our country itself.” 1