Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

153 530 Kate Gottgens SOUTH AFRICA 1965 - Baggy Creeps 2015 signed on the reverse; inscribed with the artist’s name and title on a SMAC label adhered to the stretcher oil on canvas 86 by 120cm R60 000 - 80 000 PROVENANCE SMAC, Cape Town, 2015. Private Collection. EXHIBITED SMAC, Stellenbosch, Kate Gottgens: Infinity Loop , 1 August to 19 September 2015. LITERATURE Marelize van Zyl (ed) (2015) Kate Gottgens: Paintings 2007-2015 , Stellenbosch: SMAC Art Publishing, illustrated in colour on page 6 and 179. “When she stands back to look at what is there, she observes a kind of muted entropy at work in the painting. The scene from the discarded photograph has been duly retrieved. Four boys are running sack races in an abandoned lot – staying out of trouble for the duration of an afternoon. The mood of the lost moment has been transmitted. But the documentary is dissipating, their shapes morphing as if they were chemical matter – crystal substance inside a pupa or a cocoon. These long-gone boys appear not yet hatched. She is trying to locate the cycle in a moment – how we move from birth to death and vice versa.” 1 1.  Ibid , page 179. 529 Jake Aikman SOUTH AFRICAN 1978- Lake Shoreline signed and dated 2014 on the reverse oil on panel 60 by 72cm R30 000 - 50 000 PROVENANCE SMAC, Cape Town, December 2014. Private Collection. 529 530