Strauss & co - Review 2012

Scribble Cat executed in 2010, signed and numbered 2/30 in pencil in the margin sugarlift aquatint, spitbite aquatint, drypoint and hand-painting on six copper plates six sheets assembled, measure 102 by 180cm Sold R634 980, 8 October 2012 Liberty at the Barricades signed charcoal and pastel 91 by 68cm Sold R612 700, 11 June 2012 Head signed and inscribed State Proof in pencil in the margin, executed in 1993 drypoint, from 1 copper plate and 2 hand- painted templates, on Arches paper sheet size: 121 by 91cm Sold R868 920, 6 February 2012 “I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings – an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.” 1 12