Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

101 80 William Kentridge SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– 16 Domestic Scenes signed, dated ‘80 and numbered AP1/1 in pencil in the margin etching with soft ground and aquatint 49,5 by 63,5 cm R200 000 – 300 000 ‘Some of the specific ‘maid and madams’ images came from a play, Dikhitsheneng (‘in the kitchens’), which I made with Junction Avenue Theatre Company. There are a few images of men in pinstriped suits, which were based on images from another play, Security – in which I had played the part of a factory owner. The pinstriped suit in the play and hence in the images was borrowed from my brother-in-law, the only person I knew in my circle who had a regular job and need for such a garment. I printed the sets of prints at the etchings press at the Johannesburg Art Foundation …my estimate is that half the declared edition of thirty was printed’. William Kentridge, in Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed) (2006) William Kentridge Prints, David Krut Publishing: Johannesburg. Page 26. PROVENANCE Die Kunskamer, Cape Town. LITERATURE cf. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed) (2006) William Kentridge Prints, Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Similar examples are illustrated on pages 26 to 29.