Aspire Art announces that highlights from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art auction will be held in Cape Town on September 14 2022

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BUSINESS NEWS - Contemporary highlights will include seminal works by William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, David Koloane, Pennys Siopis, Deborah Bell, Sam Nhlengethwa, and Kemang Wa Lehulere, alongside rising stars Blessing Ngobeni, Troy Makaza, Zemba Luzamba and Atang Tshikare.

Collectors of 20^th century modernism can look forward to rare and never before seen artworks by leading figures of the Amadlozi Group; Edoardo Villa and Cecil Skotnes. Also included are other highly collectable pieces by the much-loved artists, Walter Battiss, Fred Page and Judith Mason.

The auction features two specialist sections: Black Modernism and African Photography.

Aspire has championed both of these collecting segments and remains committed to bringing key artists from these categories to market.

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And leading the sale is an impressive large-scale drawing by Dumile Feni titled Mother and Baby, created in 1969, the year just after Dumile left South Africa to go into exile.

The drawing is a powerful example of Feni’s ‘London Period’ artworks which are considered poetically expressive and, at times indirectly, biographical.

Additionally featured will be significant works by other leading modernists such as Gerard Sekoto, George Pemba, Lucas Sithole and a particularly scarce painting by the prodigiously talented Julian Motau, who tragically died at the age of 20.

The photography section includes limited edition, silver gelatin prints by celebrated documentary photographer David Goldblatt alongside incredible photographic works by the award-winning Mikhael Subotzky, Mohau Modisakeng, Kudzanai Chiurai and the multi-talented Simphiwe Ndzube.

And of note is a portrait by visual activist Zanele Muholi from the renowned Somnyama Ngonyama series, which also showed at the Tate Modern in 2021 as part of the artist’s retrospective, as well as a striking image by multi-media artist Mary Sibande from her critically acclaimed Long Live the Dead Queen series, which also recently showed at the Lagos Photo Festival.