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William Kentridge (born 1955) Three animated films (with case bearing inscription 'Kentridge Animation'.) image 1
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William Kentridge (born 1955) Three animated films (with case bearing inscription 'Kentridge Animation'.) image 4
William Kentridge (born 1955) Three animated films (with case bearing inscription 'Kentridge Animation'.) image 5
William Kentridge (born 1955) Three animated films (with case bearing inscription 'Kentridge Animation'.) image 6
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William Kentridge
(born 1955)
Three animated films

Amended
15 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,650 inc. premium

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William Kentridge (born 1955)

Three animated films :
1. Johannesburg: Second Greatest City in the World after Paris 1989
2. Monument 1990
3. Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old 1991
VHS cassette, signed 'Kentridge' on label.

with case bearing inscription 'Kentridge Animation'.

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1994;
By direct descent to the current owner;
A private collection.

The above lot was acquired from the artist by the current owner's mother who worked with artist on a project for The Handspring Puppet Company in Johannesburg.

"I have never tried to make illustrations of apartheid, but the drawings and the films are certainly spawned by, and feed off, the brutalized society left in its wake. I am interested in a political art . . . an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings . . . in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism kept at bay".
—William Kentridge

(Walking Man (Primary Title) – (2000.105) – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | (vmfa.museum)

Saleroom notices

Please note that this lot is referred to by the William Kentridge Studio as a "Low-Resolution Video Catalogue" and was sold with rights for private viewing only.

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