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William KentridgePorter Series: Carte L
Europe (Shower Woman)2006-2007
2006-2007
$185,000
£140,757.93
€162,181.80
CA$262,642.10
A$281,767.97
CHF 151,134.55
MX$3,392,448.60
NOK 1,905,228.42
SEK 1,737,304.29
DKK 1,211,714.41
About the Item
"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. Critics especially praised his layered use of projected drawings, woodcuts, and animation. His interdisciplinary performance pieces also drew acclaim, notably his rendition of Kurt Schwitters’s 1932 sound poem Ursonate (2017) and of The Head and the Load (2018), a tribute to the African soldiers who served in World War I.
Provenance:
Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Christie's (New York, NY), March 6, 2014: "First Open Post War and Contemporary Art Sale," Sale 2824, Lot 105
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Exhibition:
Centro de arte contemporáneo de Málaga (Málaga, Spain), “William Kentridge: Won't You Join The Dance?,” February 14 - May 13, 2012; another example exhibited
Literature:
Basualdo, Carlos “William Kentridge: Tapestries,” (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008)
- Creator:William Kentridge (1955, South African)
- Creation Year:2006-2007
- Dimensions:Height: 96.375 in (244.8 cm)Width: 137.875 in (350.21 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Desert, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 413961stDibs: LU9310579332
William Kentridge
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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