Strauss & co - 11 November 2019, Johannesburg

133 136 Deborah Bell SOUTH AFRICAN 1957– Little Morals, eight each signed, dated 90 and numbered 41/45 in pencil in the margin; each printed with the title in the plate etching each 32,5 by 44 cm (8) R250 000 – 300 000 EXHIBITED Cassirer Gallery, Johannesburg; Gallery International, Cape Town; Taking Liberties, Durban; 1991. LITERATURE Deborah Bell (2004) Deborah Bell, Taxi-010, Johannesburg: David Krut. Illustrated on pages 56 to 57. ITEM NOTES Little Morals is a portfolio of etchings done in conjunction with Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge. The series Little Morals (1990) is Deborah Bell’s contribution to her second collaborative project with William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins, the first being Hogarth in Johannesburg (1987). The images in this collaboration were inspired by the etchings and engravings of the eighteenth century Spanish artist Francisco Goya. According to Bell, ‘each image is its own ‘little moral’, the titles of which are based on his etchings, chosen for the poetic resonance between image and word. In A Last Judgement , for example, the shadow play suggests a curate and a lay-figure in debate or judgement of the scene behind them,’the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1 1. Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell , Johannesburg: David Krut, page 56.