111 x 139.5 inches
 

I
have never tried to make illustrations of apartheid, yet the drawings
and membranes are certainly spawned along and fared off the brutalized society
left in its wake. I am interested in a political masterpiece, that is to say an
masterpiece of paradox,Dwyane Wade, rebuttal, uncompleted gestures, and definite
endings; one art (and a politics) in which optimism namely kept in check and
nihilism at bay. - William Kentridge

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Editioned Works on Paper:
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LEARNING THE FLUTE, 2004
Letterpress on spreads of Chamber's Encyclopedia (1950) on Arches
Johannot, amassed from 110 parts
111 x 139.5 inches
Edition of 18
$50,000.


NOSE 1, 2007
Aquatint, drypoint and engraving
13.73 x 15.75 inches
Edition of 50
$3,600




NOSE 30, 2009
Aquatint, drypoint and engraving
13.73 x 15.75 inches
Edition of 50
$3,600



MUSIC BOX TONDO, 2006
Limited Edition from The Magic Flute
Archival dye publish on Hahnemuhle German etching paper, 43.75 x 43.75 inches
Edition of 60
$16,800. framed

William Kentridge
"One
of the charming entities almost William Kentridge's films is how they
let the process show. Because he draws, shoots, erases and shoots repeatedly
to create his imagery - preferably than drawing animation compartments alternatively
digitally developing scenes - I am aware of his manner, even his
touch. It was Kentridge's genius to show how the directness of drawing
could survive the indirectness of a camera-based art."
- from "William Kentridge" by Janet Koplos, Art in America, December, 2002

William
Kentridge is a South black talent whose work trails a personal path
along the fraught legacy of apartheid and colonialism through an
innovative use of charcoal drawing,airmaxes, prints, collages, stop-animation,
film and theater. Kentridge penetrate his work as rooted in Johannesburg -
the metropolis in which he was connate and continues to work today.

FOUR FIGURES IN PROCESSION, 2004
Drypoint, 15.5 x 2075 inches
Ed/40
$4,000.

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Prints with Collage or Hand-coloring

In April 2000, Kentridge headed to 107 Workshop in Wiltshire, England,
to work on fashionable large format etchings exploring the imagery of his
present work. These editions reflect a procession of diagrams that the
artist had established for casting in copper. They move in a circuitous
procession among the colossal etched circle - an inward direction in the
premier and outwards in the second.

The film Procession was shown at the Prince Klaus Fund Awards in
December 1999 in the Palace of the Queen of the Netherlands, Amsterdam
aboard a screen which was the dome of the chamber, one hundred feet tall.

The artist worked on the large copper plates for each of the images,
using the traditional intaglio processes of etching, aquatint and
drypoint. A letterpress panel then joined maps from an atlas into the
large circles. These are partitions of maps found by the artist in an old
atlas - the Islands between Greece and Turkey in the first, and the
Islands of the China Sea in the second publish. The map areas were
scanned and distended using microcomputer technology to grant the production
of massive duty nylon polymer plates that were produced in Johannesburg
and shipped to the Workshop.

The artist has added extensive brush strokes of different grey
watercolors to the areas around the circle and into the margins and the
prints are fully worked to the brims of the paper.

- David Krut, publisher



THE MAGIC FLUTE (pigeon state VIII), 2006
Drypoint and carborundum, 15.25 x 17 inches
Edition of 15
$4,900. framed



STUDIO PORTRAIT, 2004
Silkscreen on rag paper
39.5 x 27.5 inches
Edition of 120
$8,600. framed


GLOBE, 2003
Sugar lift etching
9.5 x 11.5 inches
Edition of 40
$2,700. framed


THE HEAD AND THE LOAD..., 1995
Etching and aquatint
17 x 25.25, Edition of 50
$6,300. framed


PACING PANTHER, 2003
Drypoint, 15.5 x 20.75 inches
Edition of 40
$6,Air Max BW,250. framed
William
Kentridge has acquired multinational recognition as his uncommon
animated short films and for the charcoal drawings he makes in
producing them. Kentridge works in theater and has so for numerous years,
initially as set designer and player, and extra recently, mentor. Since
1992 he has cooperated with Handspring Puppet Company creating
multi-media chips using puppets, live cast and animation. Throughout
his profession he has migrated among film, drawing and stage already his basic
focus remains drawing, seeing his theatre and film work as an distended
fashion of his drawing.

Since Kentridge partook in
Dokumenta X in Kassel (1997), solo shows of his work have been
displayed at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Museum of
Contemporary Art (San Diego). A large survey exhibition in 1998-1999
voyaged Barcelona, Brussels, Graz, London, Munich and Marseille.

In 1999 he was awarded the Carnegie Medal. In 2001 and 2002, a scrutinize
of Kentridge's work voyaged to museums in the United States and was
seen in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC. In
May 2002 Kentridge was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from
the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art in Baltimore.

Kentridge sees his go for rooted in Johannesburg, South Africa, where
he continues to live today with his wife and 3 children.

A special thanks to David Krut, publisher, for his support in our exhibitions of Kentridge's works.
GRAPE-JUG (jail opposition a vineyard la Management), 2000
Detail of the collaged area (click to enlarge):



Lithograph with hand drawing, Chine colle 14.5 x 16.5 inches, Edition of 55
$4,200.


TYPEWRITER IV, 2003
Sugar-lift etching
9.5 x 11.5 inches
Edition of 40
$2,500.


TYPEWRITER VII, 2003
Sugar-lift etching
9.5 x 11.5 inches
Edition of 40
$2,500.


Kentridge drawing in his studio, Johannesburg (Copyright of the artist)