Strauss & co - 15 February 2020, Cape Town

84 THE PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR LOTS 53–74 67  BEEZY BAILEY SOUTH AFRICAN 1962– 1000 Year Dance Cure II signed and numbered 1/8 bronze with blue powder-coated patina height: 324cm, including base R350 000 – 500 000 EXHIBITED CIRCA, Cape Town, Beezy Bailey: 1000 Year Dance Cure , 23 November to 14 December 2016. Often Bailey’s works are accompanied by poems, such as ‘1000 Year Dance Cure’ , in which he exhorts the world to dance a new dance, to abandon that which does not serve us, and to embrace each other in our humanity, and the earth in her service to us. The sources of his imagery are elusive. In his own words: “Frozen dreams, images and legends enter from my subconscious, the realm of my imagination. I act as a conduit for visual messages greater than I am”. 1 1. Mary Corrigall (2016 ) ‘Art that Dances to the End of Pain’ , Sunday Times, 20 November 2016.