Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

19 5 Kemang Wa Lehulere SOUTH AFRICAN 1984– They Comet Again 5 signed and dated 17 ink on paper 56 by 76 cm R150 000 – 200 000 PROVENANCE Donated by the artist. The proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Greatmore Studios Trust. EXHIBITED cf. Stevenson, Cape Town, Kemang Wa Lehulere: Here I Am, A Concrete Man Throwing Himself into Abstraction , 18 January to 10 March 2018. Similar examples, They Comet Again 1, 2 and 3, exhibited. ITEM NOTES The first three drawings in the series They Comet Again by Kemang Wa Lehulere were exhibited on his solo show Here I Am, A Concrete Man Throwing Himself into Abstraction. In that exhibition the artist continued ‘his questioning of historical narra- tives’ while ‘exploring new formal possibilities’ 1 that included frenetic drawings that explored both pattern and movement in repetitive mark making. GREATMORE STUDIOS TRUST LOTS 1–8 1. Stevenson. (2018) Here I Am, A Concrete Man Throwing Himself into Abstraction, [Online] Available: https://www.stevenson.info/ exhibition/2713 [11 December 2018].

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