20 Mar 2013
14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The South African Sale, including "A focus on William Kentridge"
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The South African Sale, including "A focus on William Kentridge"
Back to auction 20617
Edoardo Villa (South African, 1920-2011)
Crouching figure
signed and dated 'E. VILLA. 1970.' (to side)
bronze on stone socle
32.5 x 26.5 x 19.5cm (12 13/16 x 10 7/16 x 7 11/16in.) (excluding base)
signed and dated 'E. VILLA. 1970.' (to side)
bronze on stone socle
32.5 x 26.5 x 19.5cm (12 13/16 x 10 7/16 x 7 11/16in.) (excluding base)
Estimate:
£3,000 - 5,000
ZAR 43,000 - 72,000
US$ 4,600 - 7,600
ZAR 43,000 - 72,000
US$ 4,600 - 7,600
Footnotes
- The current lot bears a striking resemblance, in smaller form, to a 2m high steel sculpture, entitled Sculpture III, included in the pictorial survey of the book Edoardo Villa: Sculpture (1980) and published to coincide with the artist's retrospective at the Rand Afrikaans University in the same year. As Karel Nel and Amalie von Maltitz explain, throughout the 1960s and into the '70s, Villa's "steel and bronze works continued to inform each other. Modelling and constucting often followed in close alternation in Villa's creative flow: shapes from one medium were transposed to the other and so a process of reciprocal innovation developed".
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
E. P. Engel (ed.), Edoardo Villa: Sculpture, (Johannesburg, 1980), p. 193
A. Von Maltitz and K.Nel, 'Edooardo Villa: A Life Considered' in Villa at 90, (Johannesburg, 2005), p. 60
Category: Fine Art / South African Art
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