Prints & Multiples 
7 September 2023
Prints & Multiples 
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William Kentridge b.1955

Head (Blue)

1993-98
drypoint with hand-coloring on Velin d'Arches Blanc 300gsm image: 40¼ h × 31 w in (102 × 79 cm) sheet: 47½ h × 36 w in (121 × 91 cm)
estimate: $40,000–60,000
result: $50,400
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Signed and numbered to lower margin ‘4/35 W. Kentridge’. This work is number 4 from the edition of 35 printed by 107 Workshop, Wiltshire, UK and published by David Krut Fine Art, London.
provenance: Cindy Bordeaux Fine Art, Chicago | Private Collection
literature: Krut 47 William Kentridge/Oleg Kudryashov: Against the Grain, The Kreeger Museum exhibition catalog, cover and pg. 17

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I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art...in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

William Kentridge

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