Aspire Art – Live Auction in Cape Town and Marelize van Zyl walks us through the highlights from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art that is now on view and up for sale on 14 September 2022.
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Aspire Art’s upcoming live auction 20th Century & Contemporary Art will take place in Cape Town on Wednesday, 14 September 2022, which features a focussed collection of 81 specially selected top-quality works by some of South Africa’s most influential modern masters and renowned contemporary African artists practicing in the international art arena today.
Contemporary highlights include seminal works by William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, David Koloane, Pennys Siopis, Deborah Bell, Sam Nhlengethwa and Kemang Wa Lehulere alongside emerging stars Blessing Ngobeni, Troy Makaza, Zemba Luzamba and Atang Tshikare.
Collectors of 20th century modernism can look forward to rare and never before seen works by leading figures of the Amadlozi Group; Edoardo Villa and Cecil Skotnes. Other highly collectable works by the much-loved artists Walter Battiss, Fred Page and Judith Mason are also included.
George Pemba, Pennies from Heaven, 1986
The auction features two specialist sections: Black Modernism and African Photography. Aspire has championed both of these collecting segments and remains committed to bringing key artists from these categories to market.
Leading the sale is an impressive large-scale drawing by Dumile Feni titled Mother and Baby, created in 1969, the year just after Dumile left South Africa to go into exile. The drawing is a powerful example of Feni’s ‘London Period’ works which are considered poetically expressive and at times indirectly biographical.
Also included are significant works by other leading modernists Gerard Sekoto, George Pemba, Lucas Sithole and a particularly scarce painting by the prodigiously talented Julian Motau, who tragically died at the age of 20.
The Photography section includes limited editioned, silver gelatin prints by celebrated documentary photographer David Goldblatt alongside incredible photographic works by the award winning Mikhael Subotzky, Mohau Modisakeng, Kudzanai Chiurai and the multi-talented Simphiwe Ndzube. Of note is a portrait by visual activist Zanele Muholi from the renowned Somnyama Ngonyama series which also showed at the Tate Modern in 2021 as part of the artist’s retrospective as well as a striking image by multi-media artist Mary Sibande from her critically acclaimed Long Live the Dead Queen series, which also recently showed at the Lagos Photo Festival.
WHAT: Aspire Art – Live Auction of 20th Century & Contemporary Art
WHERE: Aspire Art, 37A Somerset Road, De Waterkant, Cape Town
WHEN: 14 September 2022 at 6 pm | Viewing 9 – 14 September 2022
INFO:Â View the Auction and Download the Catalogue HEREÂ |
PHOTO: Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010) Big Sulk, Cosy Gossip
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