Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

50 T O P L A C E A B I D C L I C K O N T H E R E D L O T N U M B E R 520 Kendell Geers SOUTH AFRICAN 1968– Gun 1990 signed and dated ‘90 in the plate; signed and numbered 14/20 in pencil and embossed with the Caversham Press chopmark in the margin drypoint etching plate size: 25 by 20 cm R20 000 – 30 000 521 Marlene Dumas SOUTH AFRICAN/DUTCH 1953– Sex signed and dated 1989 in pencil in the margin lithograph plate size: 14 by 27 cm R20 000 – 30 000 522 Marlene Dumas SOUTH AFRICAN/DUTCH 1953– United Europe signed, dated 2005, numbered 69/75 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin lithograph 35 by 25 cm R25 000 – 35 000 523 William Kentridge SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– Act III Scene 1, 2017 signed, numbered EV 1/60, and embossed with the Artist Workshop chopmark linocut on paper with hand colouring on Hahnemühle paper image size: 30 by 18,5 cm R30 000 – 50 000 EXHIBITED FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, 8 to 10 September 2017, illustrated in colour on page 1978. The present lot is based on the artist’s drawings for the opera Lulu , William Kentridge’s version of Alban Berg’s 20th century modernist masterpiece. The opera Lulu opened to great acclaim at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in late 2015. 520 521 522 523