Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

72 TWO VIEWS OF LOT 55 55 William Kentridge SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– Head I 2007 signed and numbered 7/25 in red pencil crayon lithography, letterpress, scanned book pages, hand colouring and chine collé height: 36 cm R80 000 – 120 000 LITERATURE Warren Siebrits. (2011) Aspects of South African Art II: 1910–2010 , Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits. Another example from the edition is illustrated in colour, unpaginated. Lilian Tone. (ed.) (2013) William Kentridge: Fortuna , London: Thames & Hudson. Another example from the edition is illustrated in colour on pages 48 and 49. ITEM NOTES The present lot, from the series Four Paper Heads , is a sculptural, multi-faceted portrait that riffs off Pablo Picasso’s Absinthe Drinker series from 1914. 1 Having to some extent created Soho and Felix – two of his most prominent characters – in his own image, Head I shows the artist working with the idea of collating multiple personalities in a single moment, much like how the great Cubists presented on canvas multiple viewpoints at the same time. 1. Mark Rosenthal (ed.) (2009) William Kentridge: Five Theme s, New Haven: Yale University Press. Page 63.