William Kentridge Art
South African, b. 1955
William Kentridge (b. 1955) is an internationally acclaimed South African artist renowned for his dynamic prints, drawings, large-scale installations, and animated films. Kentridge balances universal experiences with the complexity of South African political history and society.
Born in Johannesburg to two prominent lawyers active in anti-apartheid efforts, Kentridge’s proximity to the dissolution of apartheid gave him a unique social sensitivity. His upbringing would shape the socio-political lens that informed his work as an artist.(Biography provided by Caviar20)
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Pope Gregory VII Deposed from Triumphs and Laments, Signed by William Kentridge
By William Kentridge
Located in New York, NY
William Kentridge
Pope Gregory VII Deposed (Hand signed by William Kentridge), 2018
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by William Kentridge)
Boldly signed in dark ink by William K...
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2010s Expressionist William Kentridge Art
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Lithograph, Offset
William Kentridge: Triumphs & Laments (Hand signed by William Kentridge)
By William Kentridge
Located in New York, NY
William Kentridge: Triumphs & Laments (Hand signed by William Kentridge), 2018
Hardback monograph with cloth cover and no dust jacket as issued (hand signed by William Kentridge)
Bol...
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Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman)
By William Kentridge
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman)" is a tapestry by South African artist William Kentridge. It is edition 1 of 5 (plus 2 APs) and signed verso "W. Kentridge".
William Kentridge is a South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism he revealed in these and other works echoed a larger European tradition of artists such as Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya, and William Hogarth.
Kentridge, whose father was a noted antiapartheid lawyer, attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1973–76) and the now-defunct Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78). At various times in the 1970s and ’80s, he worked as an actor, playwright, set designer, and theatrical director, and he studied mime and theatre in Paris in the early 1980s. In 1992 he began an ongoing collaboration involving multimedia performances with Handspring Puppet Theatre (founded 1981) in Cape Town.
As is clear from both his early training and his later artistic output, Kentridge’s interest in the visual arts was rooted in its connection with the theatrical arts. The narrative structure and character development in his films reflect this connection. While Kentridge pursued several avenues as an artist, at the centre of his work was a sequence of short animated films. To produce them, he made a rough charcoal drawing, photographed it, altered the drawing slightly, photographed it again, and so on. Kentridge’s original drawings are often completely effaced by their successors.
Many of these films—including Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris (1989) and Felix in Exile (1994)—follow the fortunes of the greedy capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the sensitive and artistic Felix Teitelbaum. They present modern South Africa as reflective of the spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises of late capitalism.
Kentridge later established himself as a consummate figure in the performing arts, particularly for his innovative stagings of the operas The Nose (2010) and Lulu (2015) at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Wozzeck (2017) at the Salzburg Festival...
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Eight Figures
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The Nose
By William Kentridge
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Yesterday's Good Idea: A limited edition print by William Kentridge
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Located in London, Hertfordshire
Woodcut printed on non-archival sheets from New Kleinfontein Company Ltd., Manager's Cash Book Ledger (1925-1927) and Somerset Velvet, Soft White, 300 gsm.; assembled and mounted ont...
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Flatiron Building
By William Kentridge
Located in New York, NY
William Kentridge (b. 1955), Flatiron Building, (also known as I Am Still Learning), drypoint, 1985, on Rives paper with their watermark, signed, dated and dedicated For Hermine from...
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Eight Vessels - Photogravure with hand painting by William Kentridge
By William Kentridge
Located in London, GB
4-Plate photogravure with hand painting.
Signed and numbered from the edition of 20.
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2010s Contemporary William Kentridge Art
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Sleeper I
By William Kentridge
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right. Inscribed `Proof' lower left, aside from the numbered edition of 30
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1990s Contemporary William Kentridge Art
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Aquatint, Etching
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