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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.
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Artist: William Kentridge
Untitled -- Print, Etching, Figure, HMV Set by William Kentridge

Untitled -- Print, Etching, Figure, HMV Set by William Kentridge

By William Kentridge

Located in London, GB

Untitled, 1997 William Kentridge Etching with drypoint, on Richard de Bas wove Signed and inscribed 'BAT' in pencil The Bon à Tirer impression aside from the edition of 50 From The...

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1990s Contemporary William Kentridge Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

"The Nose" by William Kentridge (Photograph, Black and White, Newspaper, Print)
"The Nose" by William Kentridge (Photograph, Black and White, Newspaper, Print)

"The Nose" by William Kentridge (Photograph, Black and White, Newspaper, Print)

By William Kentridge

Located in New York, NY

This is a monochromatic photogravure, aquatint and drypoint on Hahnemuhle Copperplate warm white paper. Created in 2010, it is signed in pencil lower right and numbered from the edit...

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2010s Contemporary William Kentridge Art

Materials

Screen, Photogravure

Self Portrait
Self Portrait

Self Portrait

By William Kentridge

Located in Toronto, Ontario

William Kentridge (b. 1955) is an internationally acclaimed South African artist renowned for his dynamic prints, drawings, large-scale installations, and animated films. Through his...

Category

1990s Contemporary William Kentridge Art

Materials

Charcoal, Mixed Media

Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman) - Silk Tapestry, 21st Century
Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman) - Silk Tapestry, 21st Century

Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman) - Silk Tapestry, 21st Century

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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21st Century and Contemporary William Kentridge Art

Materials

Tapestry, Silk

Nose #1
Nose #1

Nose #1

By William Kentridge

Located in Toronto, Ontario

William Kentridge (b. 1955) is an internationally acclaimed South African artist renowned for his dynamic prints, drawings, large-scale installations, and animated films. Through his...

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Early 2000s Surrealist William Kentridge Art

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Nose #22
Nose #22

Nose #22

By William Kentridge

Located in Toronto, Ontario

William Kentridge (b. 1955) is an internationally acclaimed South African artist renowned for his dynamic prints, drawings, large-scale installations, and animated films. Through his...

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Early 2000s Surrealist William Kentridge Art

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Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

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Find a wide variety of authentic William Kentridge art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by William Kentridge in lithograph, offset print, drypoint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large William Kentridge art, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Cy Twombly, Judy Chicago, and Antonio Corpora. William Kentridge art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $700 and tops out at $275,000, while the average work can sell for $4,500.