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122 300 Norman Catherine SOUTH AFRICAN 1949– Cogitator signed and numbered 5/9 bronze with a green patina on a steel base height: 82 cm including base; width: 37 cm; depth: 42 cm R250 000 – 300 000 EXHIBITED Circa, Johannesburg, Norman Catherine: Incognito , 1 August to 5 October 2013. LITERATURE Everard Read (2013) Norman Catherine: Incognito , exhibition catalogue, illustrated in colour on the cover. 299 Willem Boshoff SOUTH AFRICAN 1951– Tshidumbumukwe signed, dated 2010 and numbered 4/5 machined wood height: 33 cm; width: 56 cm; depth: 47 cm R100 000 – 120 000 The title of this work translates into English as ‘whirlwind’. ‘In Greek, a bostryxos is a curl or lock of hair, twisted or wreathed. A bostryx , in botany, is a ‘uniparous helicoid cyme’. Uniparous means ‘bearing one at birth’or ‘one at a time’, and cyme means ‘having only one axis or branch’. A cyme, really, is a centrifugal or definite inflorescence wherein the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, and, if bostrychoidal , into a curl. In botany and also elsewhere bostrychoid is more generally accepted as describing forms looking like, or having the character of, a ringlet or simple, twisted curl. Spiral staircases and the twining tendrils on ivies and grapes are bostrychoidal . The lazy patterns of smoke in the air are decidedly bostry- choidal , because the old Greeks used bostryxos , by approximation, to designate the undulating patterns created in the sky by flashes of light- ning. A helical curl was made for this project in reference to shavings like the ones that ‘curl’out of pencil-sharpeners and turning-lathes.’ Willem Boshoff Source: Willem Boshoff (2020) Tshidumbumukwe, available online at https://www.willemboshoff.com/ product-page/tshidumbumukwe TWO VIEWS OF LOT 299