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Property from the Collection of Arthur C. Danto and Barbara Westman Danto

William Kentridge

Drypoint Typewriter

Lot closes

October 2, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 USD

Starting Bid

1,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Arthur C. Danto and Barbara Westman Danto 

William Kentridge

b. 1955


Drypoint Typewriter

signed in pencil (lower right); inscribed For Arthur + Barbara from William NY and dated 2002 (lower center); numbered 21/28 (lower left)

drypoint on wove paper

plate: 5⅞ by 7¾ in. (14.9 by 19.6 cm.)

sheet: 11 by 12¾ in. (27.9 by 32.5 cm.)

Executed in 2003; this impression is presumably one of 28 proofs aside from the numbered edition of 40, published by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, New York, and with their inkstamp on the verso.

Acquired directly from the artist as a gift by the present owner