New Stock: Silkscreens, Maps, Posters & Objet d’Art
12 January 2024
Dmitri Shostakovich silkscreen by Gerhard Marx 2009 Numbered 5/5 signed and dated in pencil. Sculptor Gerhard Marx worked with William Kentridge on The Nose project, based on composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Marx also assisted William Kentridge with the Fire Walker sculpture in Central Johannesburg. R15,000
Plan of the Witwatersrand Goldfields 1933 By W.E Blelock, published in London. The Raanjeslaagte triangle is visible, but the most interesting aspect of this map is that it shows the gradient of the ripple effect of the meteorite strike at the Vredefort Dome over two billion years ago. R8,500
South African Constabulary Brass Box With sterling silver King South Africa medal mounted. R5,000
Unite and Organise Poster c.1988 Offset litho in black and red produced by COSATU. Anti-apartheid poster. R4,000
Oriki Magazine by Bakare Gbadamosi 1961 Very limited print run. printed in Yoruba. Silkscreen illustrations by Susanne Wenger featuring stylized representations of pre-colonial Nigerian art. R2,500
Ivory Buddah c.1900 Height 8.5cm, base 6.5cm x 3cm R2,250
Boer War Commemorative Mug c.1902 Designed by Edward Linley Sambourne (4 January 1844 – 3 August 1910) an English cartoonist and illustrator most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine Punch for more than forty years and rising to the position of "First Cartoonist" in his final decade. He was also a great-grandfather of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, who was the husband of Princess Margaret. Height 11.5cm Diameter 11.5cm excluding handle R2,000
Namibian Union Poster c.1988 Silkscreen, printed at a time when the country was still known as South West Africa and formed part of the Republic of South Africa. This is both a union poster and an anti-apartheid poster. R2,000
Map of the Eastern Hemispherec.1928 Issues by the National Geographic Society Fourth of a series of five murals by NC Wyeth (1882-1945), the originals of which adorn the walls of the National Geographic Society buildings in Washington. R2,000
British Artillery & Infantry c.1901
Hand coloured line block print, Boer War period. This graphic was made for children and was meant for cutting out. The uniforms depict periods from the 1870’s until 1902. R1,500
