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Item date(s): 2000

William Kentridge  - (printed by)
Mark Attwood


Pages: unpaged
Size: 275mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #13/33


Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: The Artists' Press
Cat. 250-C6a ZA
Exhibition 2017; 2022

Additional notes:
Colophon: "Images are chine collé of black Canson paper on pages of "Le Nouveau Larousse Illustré" circa 1906 supported by cream Arches paper. Edition cloth casing made by Peter Carstens."

With the Artists' Press chop on the colophon page.

With a handmade slipcase by Peter Carstens at a later date which is protective and not part of the edition.

Illustrated on page 152 of "William Kentridge" Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and published by Skira.

Illustrated on pages 90-95 of William Kentridge Prints published by David Krut Publishing, 2006.

Illustrated on pages 25 and 48 of Tapestries: William Kentridge published by Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007.

Illustrated on page 168-171 of "William Kentridge" by Stephen Clingman. Royal Academy of Arts, 2022.

Description from Aspire Art Auction catalogue. Spring 2019:

chine collé of figures from black Canson paper on multiple spreads from Le Nouveau Larousse Illustré Encyclopaedia (c.1906), on Vélin d'Arches créme paper, folded as a leporello

signed, numbered 2/33 in pencil and stamped with The Artists' Press chop mark on the colophon of the leporello

sheet size (folded): 27.5 x 23.5 cm; sheet size (unfolded): 27.5 x 423 cm

Provenance:

Other examples from the edition are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New York Public Library; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Pierre Lombart; the artist.

Exhibited:

Other examples from the edition exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, William Kentridge, which travelled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; South National Gallery, Cape Town, 2001 to 2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 28 January to 21 April 2002; Herter Art Gallery, Massachusetts, Global Priority, 27 October to 23 November 2003; The College of Wooster Art Museum, Ebert Art Center, Ohio, William Kentridge Prints, 18 January to 6 March 2005; Miami Art Central, Miami, William Kentridge, 30 November 2005 to 5 March 2006; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, William Kentridge: Five Themes, which travelled to Modern Art Museum Forth Worth, Fort Worth; Norton Museum of Art, Florida; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2009 to 2011; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Double Vision: Albrecht Dürer & William Kentridge, 20 November 2015 to 6 March 2016; University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Booknesses: Artists’ Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection, 25 March to 5 May 2017 and The Sint- Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium, William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable, 21 October 2017 to 25 February 2018.

Literature:

Koerner, Margaret K. (ed.). (2017). William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable, New Haven: Yale University Press, another example from the edition illustrated, p.212, exhibition catalogue for William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable, the Sint- Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium, 21 October 2017 to 25 February 2018.

Tone, L. (ed.). (2013). William Kentridge Fortuna. London: Thames and Hudson, another example from the edition illustrated on pp.264-267.

Rosenthal, M. (ed.). (2009). William Kentridge: 5 Themes. London: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Modern Art in association with Yale University Press, another example from the edition illustrated on pp.148-150.

Basualdo, C. (ed.). (2008). William Kentridge: Tapestries. New Haven: Yale University Press, another example from the edition illustrated on pp.24-25.

Law-Viljoen, B. (ed.). (2006). William Kentridge Prints. Johannesburg: David Krut publishing, another example from the edition illustrated on pp.90-95.

The College of Wooster Art Museum. (2005). William Kentridge Prints, Ohio: The College of Wooster Art Museum, detail illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue and p.3.

Faulconer Gallery. (2004). William Kentridge Prints. Iowa: Grinnell College, another example from the edition illustrated on pp.92-95.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. (2001). William Kentridge. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art in association with New Museum of Contemporary Art, another example from the edition illustrated on pp.i–1.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0250 - C6a ZA on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

WJK: In black and white and READ all over

JGCBA, WAM

22 June to 26 August 2022

Ref: GB/09832





















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