Summer Collection Catalogue

Summer Collection 2013

The South African Print Gallery Presents:

The South African Print Gallery 109 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock Cape Town, Tel: 021-4626851 www.printgallery.co.za

Welcome to our first

South African Print Gallery Summer 2013 Catalogue

Please enjoy our refined selection of the top South African fine art prints, if you would like to see more of each artist please feel free to refer to our SAPG secular artists catalogues on www.printgallery.co.za

The SAPG is not all about money and market, but the ability of enjoying a reading a wonderful history of South African Printmaking language that has matured rapidly, while blossoming over the last 100 years, that has been enjoyed by thousands of incredible artists including the likes of Irma Stern, Walter Battiss, Pierneef, Page etc. At the SAPG we don’t simply deal with big names and prices, but the ability to recognise beautiful and amazing prints done both by obscure and interesting artists. When you purchase a print you are not just buying an image but also a part of SA rich printmaking history and language.

Please feel welcome to contact us for any questions or observations you may have, this is our first SAPG catalogue, of which we are immensely proud, it’s taken over 30 years of enjoyment and love to produce, we look forward in sharing our pleasure and investment opportunity with you.

Kind regards

Gabriel Clark-Brown

Joshua Miles - Cape Beauty

Corner of Ed 10

2012, 56,5x42cm, R 6 400.00

Stone Lion Ed 10

2012, 42x56,5cm, R 6 400.00

Off Centre Ed 10

2011, 28x38cm, R 4 160.00

Ed 10

From Rhodes Memorial Ed 10

2010, 30x50cm, R 4 160.00

On the Rim, 2011, 21x56cm, R 4 800.00

Joshua Miles - Cape Beauty

2012, 21x26,5cm, R 2 640.00

Ed 10

Long Pines Ed 10

2012, 35x70cm, R 8 000.00

Above the City Centre Ed 10

2011, 42x56cm, R 6 240.00

Oorlogskloofpad, 2011, 28x44cm R 3 520.00

Papertest Ed 7

Joshua Miles - Karoo

Ed 10 Karoo Grasveld Ed 10

2010, 28x38cm, R 3 520.00 2012, 28x38cm, R 4 160.00

Ed 10 Grasveld buite Merweville Ed 10

2012, 54x74cm, R 10 400.00 2012, 42x56cm, R 6 400.00

Climax

Op pad na Kruisrivier

Road to Nieu Bethesda, 2010, 27x43cm, R 4 160.00 Ed 10

Joshua Miles - Karoo

Ed 10 Witklippies Pad Ed 10

2011, 42x56cm, R 5 280.00 2011, 50,5x65cm, R 6 240.00

Gifberg

Fynbos River Mouth, 2010, 42x56cm, R 6 240.00 Ed 10

Koedoesberge, 2012, 54x74cm, R 10 400.00 Ed 10

South African Landscapes

Peter Midlane Ed 20 Peter Midlane Ed 20

Highlands Crow, Etching, 30x39cm, R 1 300.00 On New Stead, 2003, 21x30cm, R 1 300.00

Peter Midlane Ed 20 Diane Ackerman Ed 16

Story of an African Farm Ed 20 Seekoeigat Hotel

2010, Etching, 33x38cm, R 1 300.00 Woodblock, 21x34,5, R 2 500.00

Eunice Geustyn Ed 12 Eunice Geustyn Ed 12

Sanctuary, 1995, Lithograph-Screenprint Ceremony, 1995, Lithograph-Screenprint

58x76cm, R5 500.00 58x76cm, R 5 500.00

Social Mythology

Guy Thesen Ed 20

And Summers Lease

Guy Thesen Guy Thesen Ed 20

I Compare Thee Fight or Flight, Woodblock, R 2 500.00

2012, Woodblock, 42x59cm, R 2 500.00

Conrad Botes Conrad Botes Ed 30

Haunted Beggar

2009, Lithograph, 56x42cm, R 6 300.00 2009, Lithograph, 42x49,5cm, R 6 290.00

2012, Woodblock, 42x59cm, R 2 500.00

Ed 20

Galleon

Guy Thesen Ed 20

2012, Woodblock, 42x59cm, R 2 500.00

Ed 30

Social Mythology

Alma Vorster Ed 15 Alma Vorster Ed 15

Serenade in Masquerade II Twilight of the Gods

1997, Etching, 44x55cm, R 8 000.00 1933, Etching, 27,5x35cm, R 4 000.00

Eunice Geustyn Ed 5 John Moore Ed 20

Lament I

2002, Etching, 33x50cm, R 4 000.00 Lithograph, 57x77cm, R 7 695.00

Gabriel Clark-Brown

2008, Etching, 31x37cm, R 3 800.00 2007, Etching, 50x60cm, R 5 000.00

The Arrivals-Whale over Zimbabwe Ruins

Ed 24 Eunice Geustyn Ed 3

Komdt Claasen, Rooiwal Lies in Greenpark London Folly

Social Mythology

Malcolm Payne Ed 5

Big First, 2005, Archival Pigment, 100x200cm, R 32 000.00

Malcolm Payne Ed 30

Market Forces I, 2005, Etching, 60x85cm, R 8 000.00

Malcolm Payne Ed 30

Market Forces III, 2005, Etching, 60x85cm, R 8 000.00

Social Mythology

Colbert Mashile Ed 25 Colbert Mashile Ed 30

The Presentation Three's A Crowd

2009, Lithograph, 43x56cm, R 4 600.00 2010, Lithograph, 50x70cm, R 6 000.00

Paul Painting Ed 20

Ape's Progress, 2010, Etching, 22x30cm, R 2 300.00

Siphungela Zolani Ed 50

2011, Linocut, 20x40cm,R 1 400.00

Malcolm Payne Paul Painting Ed 10

Mafikeng Head IV The Thaunmaturgist, 2010

Etching, 10x19,5cm, R 3 800.00 15x40cm R 1 950.00

Social Mythology

Judy Woodborne Ed 30

The Hanging Man

Etching, 2012, 12,5x19,5cm, R 1 700.00


The Empress

Etching, 2012, 12,5x19,5cm, R 1 700.00 Etching, 2012, 12,5x19,5cm, R 1 700.00


Street 66 Other Side

2011, Linocut, 46x46cm, R 1 800.00 2011, Linocut, 25x25cm, R 1 000.00

The Star


The Chariot


Etching,2012, 12,5x19,5cm, R 1 700.00


Mythology

John Moore Ed 6

The Gossamer Lattice, 2003, 91x121cm, R 30 780.00

John Moore Ed 6 John Moore Ed 6

Heavenly Urania, 2001 Flourishing Thalia, 2001

Woodblock, 59x90cm, R 20 000.00 Woodblock, 59x90cm, R 20 000.00

Mythology

Judith Mason Judith Mason Ed 25

Lithograph,2008, 51x70cm, R 6 970.00 Lithograph, 2008, 50,5x66,5cm, R 6 600.00

Mothmask I Wardrobe

Judith Mason, Mused Amused, 2006, Lithograph, 55x56cm, R 6 450.00 Ed 40

Ed 25

Social Commentary

Hanneke Benade

Gaze Tied in a Bow


Hanneke Benade Hanneke Benade Ed 30

Gauze No More Bobby Pins

Lithograph, 50x70cm, R 5 780.00 2011, Lithograph, 38,5x36cm, R 5 040.00

Claudette Schreuders Ed 35 Claudette Schreuders Ed 35

Paradise The Fall

Lithograph, 31x43cm, R 8 570.00 2009, Lithograph, 2009, 31x43cm, R 8 570.00

Ed 30

Ed 30 Hanneke Benade Ed 30

Social Commentary

Chris Diedericks Ed 20 Chris Diedericks Ed 10

Wisdom of Dragonflies II, 2012, 25x36cm, R 4 800.00 Planetary Platitudes, 2012

Etching, 44x66cm, R 7 800.00

Jonathan Comerford Ed 7 Jonathan Comerford Ed 7 Jonathan Comerford Ed 7

Victor, 2005, Lithograpgh Calling All Contenders, 2005 In the Drink, 2005, Lithograph

38x52cm, R 2 640.00 Lithograph, 28x52cm, R 2 640.00 38x52cm, R 2 640.00

Peter Midlane Ed 20

Hunters, 2009, Etching, 30x39cm, R 1 300.00

Social Commentary

Jonathan Comerford Ed 20

Fish Vendor

1992, Linocut, 35x99,5cm, R 9 000.00

Anton Kannenmeyer Ed 25

Anton Kannenmeyer Ed 25 Peekaboo!

A Black Woman, 2011, Lithograph, 48,7x76cm, R 6 230.00 Lithograph, 2008, 57,5x57,5cm, R 6 230.00

Paul Birchall Ed 3 Paul Birchall Ed 3

Glass Hours I,2012, Silkscreen, 28x28cm Glass Hours II, 2012, Silkscreen, 28x28cm

R 1 400.00 R 1 400.00

Social Commentary

Gabriel Clark-Brown Ed 25

Leaving for London, Economy Class

2008, Etching, 27,5x43cm, R 4 200.00

Gabriel Clark-Brown

Angel over Piet Retief

2008, Etching, 59x63cm, R 5 200.00

Theo Paul Vorster Ed 15

Girl With Swallows, 2012, Linocut, 35,5x44cm, R 2 100.00

Paul Painting Ed 20

Carnay, 2010, Etching, 20x28cm, R 1 750.00

Velile Soha Ed 100

Rural Woman making a Sisal Mat

1987, Linocut, 21x30cm, R 4 500.00

David Koloane Ed 30 David Koloane Ed 30

Three Sisters Mirror


Ed 24

Humanity

Chris Diedericks Ed 10

Planetary Platitudes IV, 2012, 44x66cm, R 7 800.00


Mother and Me, 1993, Etching, 52x86cm, R 5 200.00


Above the Lights, 1998, Etching, 53x79cm, R 4 800.00

Humanity


Passion, 2010, Linocut, 25x25cm, R 800.00

Conrad Botes Ed 30

Scavenging, 2009, Lithograph, 39x40cm, R 6 290.00

Claudette Schreuders Ed 35

The Beginning, 2009, Lithograph, 31x43cm, R 8 570.00

Architecture & Interiors

Joshua Miles Ed 10

Woodstock Main Road Sunlit Interior, 2006, Silkscreen, 50x67cm, R 800.00

2010, Woodcut, 42x57cm, R 6 240.00

Stephen Inngs Ed 10

Architecture - Shellbourne Simon's Town Interior, 2006, Silkscreen, 46x70cm, R 1 200.00

Lithograph, 50x65cm, R 5 000.00

Velile Soha Ed 100

Loneliness of the Shacks, 1993, Linocut, 29x21cm, R 4 500.00

Peter Heck Ed 20

Peter Heck Ed 20

Architecture & Interiors

Sam Nhlengethwa Ed 50

Tribute to Helen Sebidi, 2001, Lithograph, 49,5x69cm, R 11 490.00

Sam Nhlengethwa Ed 50

Tribute to Cecil Skotnes, 2008, Lithograph, 49,5x69cm, R 11 490.00

Botanicals

Solly Gutman Ed 100

Protea Cynaroides

2012, Scaperboard, 30x42cm, R 840.00

Solly Gutman Ed 100 Solly Gutman Ed 100

Lady's Slipper Orchid & Moth Orchid Leucospermum Reflexum

2012, Scraperboard, 30x42cm, R 840.00 2012, Scraperboard, 30x42cm, R 840.00

Solly Gutman Ed 100

Cotelydon Barbieri - Aloe Striata - Cotelydon Arbiculata

2012, Scraperboard, 30x60cm, R 840.00

Botanicals

Joshua Miles Ed 10

Joshua Miles Ed 10 Diane Ackerman Ed 150

Baobab, 2012, Etching, 14,5x19,5cm, R 800.00

Theo Paul Vorster Ed 25 Theo Paul Vorster Ed 25

Still Life, 2011, Linocut, 58x62cm, R 4 130.00 Still Life, 2011, Linocut, 58x62cm, R 4 130.00

Peter Heck Ed 20

Wild Coral Tree, 2005, Silkscreen 29x35cm, R 1 200.00

Garingbome, 2012, Woodcut, 42x56cm, R 6 400.00

De Hoop Milkwood, 2011, 42x56cm, R 6 240.00

Botanicals

Sarah Pratt Ed 60 Sarah Pratt Ed 60

Coco de Mer, 2008, Etching Coconut Palm, 2008, Etching

10x10cm, R 500.00 10x10cm, R 500.00

Jane Eppel Ed 30

Doring II, 2010, Etching, 15x25cm, R 1 200.00

Environments

Theo Paul Vorster Ed 25 Theo Paul Vorster Ed 25

Sleeping Dalmation, 2011, Linocut, 35,5x44cm, R 2 030.00 Apple on a Plate, 2011, 33x34cm, R 910.00

Paul Birchall Ed 20 Paul Birchall Ed 20

Kalahari, 2009, Etching, 14,5x20cm, R 1 400.00 Ginger Tom, 2009, Etching, 14,5x20cm, R 1 400.00

Diane Ackerman David Koloane Ed 20

Vincent, 2012, Etching, 15x18cm, R 800.00 Coming Down, 2011, Linocut, 43x55cm, R 3 780.00

Diane Ackerman Ed 150

Bull, 2012, Etching, 14,5x19,5cm, R800.00

Environments

Joshua Miles Ed 10 Marilyn Southey Ed 35

Power Nap, Etching, 11x13cm, R 600.00

Woodblock, 28x38cm, R 4 160.00

Joshua Miles Ed 10 Marilyn Southey Ed 50

Woodblock, 28x38cm, R 4 160.00 Etching, 12x13cm, R 800.00

Sam Nhlengethwa Sam Nhlengethwa Ed 25

Left Alone, Lithograph 24,5x30,5cm, R 5 640.00 Stranded, Lithograph 24,5x30,5cm, R 5 640.00

Ed 25

Prag en Praal, 2011

Lewenssirkel, 2012 Inspired

Investment Prints

A Portfolio of selected Investment Prints

The South African Print Gallery Presents:

The South African Print Gallery 109 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock Cape Town, Tel: 021-4626851 www.printgallery.co.za

Insider trading knowledge - the basic facts about investing in Prints

By Gabriel Clark-Brown

Being a printmaker and a print dealer I have seen quite a bit what works, and simply doesn't- these past twenty years, I have seen the rise of Kentridge from humble 2 to 6 zeros, but luckily for SA printmaking Kentridge is not the only incredible SA fine art print success story. To understand why collectors do what they do I have written some guidelines on how to select your collection of works. Talent, bottle it, it also comes and goes in artists lives Talent: Talent is a rare thing in art, if you see it as a gallery you snap it up, it's a commodity that sells, and not easily faked or forced by a desperate the very best PR companies. Very few talented artists escape the gallery system, even the illusive Fred Page was picked up and sold via a system. Some artists are not talented, but have a charismatic lifestyle that assists selling their work (as part of their character spin off), and vice versa- some artists are awfully dull, but produce good work. Sometimes you do get a highly unusual mix of talented and extraverted artists such as Walter Battiss. Either way with most artists' talent comes and goes, or you want to purchase work from the artists most talented and mature period of the artists' life. Artist's careers: there is no sure thing in any artist's careers; people make the common mistake that artists produce the same consistent brilliance throughout their careers. Some works done in inspired years are amazing compared to money hatchet jobs that may come later. Buy low sell high, better still buy the artists strongest works Very few artists produce a consistently brilliant body of work. A good collector can stand back and see through the potboilers, and stuff that was rushed on a bad hair day, and focus on a few pieces of strong, iconic work. The strong iconic signature style pieces or turning points are what are reaching the best prices on auction now. Example 1: William Kentridges Orchards were produced in the 1980's, there would fetch a great deal more that his nose series (1500+ were printed almost as collectable toys that follow a Disney movie blockbuster). Example 2: Don't buy 12x poorly Irma Stern's at a Million each, rather buy 2 x strong works for 6M each. Prints allow you to spread your assets. Instead of blowing 100K on one Ernst de Jong painting I would recommend spending the same amount on 12 good prints by good, solid SA Artists. Your returns of over 10%-20% pa on the better investments would give you greater yields on your investments in the long run.

Make friends with you Print Dealer and Print Publisher. The biggest secret in collecting contemporary prints is to call up your print publisher and ask them which print series are selling the quickest over the past 2-3 months. Generally because the print sells there is a demand for the print (Few print editions move fast). Even more when the print series sells out, this is the time that prices start to rocket, as the print moves from a controlled set price market to a stock market floor retail market model -and both scarcity and demand value jack up the prices even more. The ultimate prize is to follow the shooting star of these sales of prints in the edition until the last 10 of the edition are available that you buy for a knockdown price (the initial edition is usually sold off buy the publisher). Once you have bought these 10 you are in business and this is the perfect time to mature your investment by holding onto the prints for 2-3 years before selling them on. Example 1 A friend of mine bought 5 x Robert Hodgins from me that were selling in their edition for R 3 000 each, he beat me down to R 2400 each if he took all 5. Just 3 years later post Robert's death the prints now retail for R 8 500, each, and because he bust me down as a young dealer, to R 2400 he tripled his profit. Example 2 When Mark Attwood released Sam Nhlengethwa Tribute series they all retailed for R 6 500. The Tribute to Kentridge sold out within 2 months, hence that print shot up in retail value. Almost a year to the day a woman paid R 18 500 that I had kept back, without blinking. General Questions Fine Art Prints are not reproductions Fine Art Prints are usually first generation prints printed off from a "Matrix" (current hip word) the Matrix is the medium that holds the information of the prints such as an etching plate, stone/ plate litho plate or even a PDF file. Reproductions of work were big in the 60-80 with Schwickerts making big impressions and selling them on to a rising white middle class, Treckikoff to make it big, but no-one made it as big as Hogarth, the grand daddy of artwork/ paint reproduction who steel faced his plate engravings reproductions of his oil paintings. Edition numbers - don't matter bar the medium Edition numbers of works do, and don't matter depending on the circumstance. Low editions are good, except for the "Dream -Fast selling Bingo Prints" Most artists like to keep their editions low, as they think that they can get more money through the exclusivity of the print. In addition to this the low edition number keeps the production of the print lower as less revenue is put out for the editing of the print (this is more the case of poor, younger artists). The problem here is that no -one knows - when the print is made- if the print will sell or not. If that print is the 10% “Dream Bingo” print that sells out in days, the artist will never realise a good profit on the print- as it goes quickly from the artist price, straight to a secondary market.

If the artist had printed 20 Bingo prints they would have benefitted more (unless the artists hold back on some of their prints for investment purposes) Edition numbers do matter when: 1. You print more than 1000 in an edition or so, when you are dealing with a small South African market. The usual edition run generally would be between 12 to 50 or so. 2. If the matrix, say soft zinc plate is used, the quality of the print will deteriorate after 20 or so impressions, especially if there are fine lines. Things you don't want to say in professional print dealers circle. 1. Printmaking as a democratic medium 2. Prints are accessible artwork 3. The way to price prints is the division of the main image divided by edition number Prints as a democratic medium This is a term that came about in the mid 1980's; I think it came about because democracy was on everyone's mind. There is no real relationship between democracy and printmaking, maybe Printmaking as a way to get your revolutionary ideas across would have been a better, more hip way of describing print making. Prints are an accessible art medium Fine Art Prints are not cheap, not to make, or to market, or to buy. If you were a photographer you would cringe at someone saying that postcards and photographs are the same thing, the same thing goes with printmaking. Of course there would always be printmakers who whack things out for wedding invitations, or painters who create cheap scrubbers, but these works don't apply to good quality fine art printmakers. If you consider handmade wrapping paper and wedding invites as accessible fine art, then its best to stick with that and discern the difference to quality fine art prints. You can't divide the total cost of image into edition Some people try to price a print according the image could fetch if it were say a painting. An example could be say if a Madonna and Child images was a painting it would reach say R 25 000, and one printed 25 prints and sold them on for R 1000, this would be the right thing to do. This formula might be a guide, but simply can't work, it's like if you chop up the image of 100 x 100 cm’s and sell the image off for R 1000 per square 10cm Example: Kentridges Orchard Print sells for R 600 000, does this mean that image of the combined edition should be multiplied by 50 - this is not fitting to the consistence of Kentridge prices.

Anton Kannenmeyer

Ed 20

Yolandi Visser ,2012, Lithograph, 35,7x54cm, R 5 340.00 Ed 20

A Black Woman, 2011, Lithograph, 48,7x76cm, R 6 230.00 Ed 20

Ninja ,2012, Lithograph, 38x47cm, R 5 340.00

Anton Kannenmeyer

2008, Lithograph, 50,5x66,5cm, R 6 230.00

N is for Nightmare Ed 35

Peekaboo!, 2008, Lithograph, 57,5x57,5cm, R 6 230.00 Ed 25

Brett Murray

Mr Entitled Ed 20

2008, Etching, 44x51cm, R 4 500.00 2008, Etching, 44x51cm, R 4 500.00

Mrs Entitled Ed 20

Shame I, 2008, Offset Lithograph, 38x57cm, R 4 500.00 Ed 20

Brett Murray

Darkest Africa

2008, Offset Lithography, 46x58cm, R 4 500.00

Shame IV, 2008, Offset Lithograph, 38x57cm, R 4 500.00 Ed 20

Ed 20

Brett Murray

Xhosa, 2004, Silkscreen, 44x60cm, R 3 300.00 Ed 25

Conrad Botes

Haunted, 2009, Lithograph, 56,4x42,2cm, R 7 260.00 Ed 30

Beggar, 2009 Lithograph, 41x49cm, R 6 290.00 Ed 30

Conrad Botes

Scavenging, 2009, Lithograph, 39x40cm, R 6 290.00 Ed 30

Claudette Schreuders

The Beginning, 2009, Lithograph, 31x43cm, R 8 560.00 Ed 35

Paradise, 2009, Lithograph, 31x43cm, R 8 560.00 Ed 35

Claudette Schreuders

The Fall, Lithograph, 31x43cm, R 8 560.00 Ed 35

Hanneke Benade

Gaze No More Bobby Pins Ed 30


Tied in a Bow Gauze Ed 30


Ed 30

Ed 30

Judith Mason

Mothmask I Ed 25 Wardrobe Ed 25


Pomegranate III Ed 25

2010, Lithograph, 50x70cm, R 8 670.00

Muse Amused, 2006, Lithograph, 55x65cm, R 6 450.00 Ed 40

Malcolm Payne

Mafikeng Head IV

Pox, 2005, Archival Pigment, 100x200cm, R 32 000.00 Ed 5

Mafikeng Head I

1993, Etching, 10x19,5cm, R 3 800.00 1993, Etching, 10x19,5cm, R 3 800.00

Malcolm Payne

Ed 30

Ed 30 Market Forces III, 2005 Etching, 60x85cm, R 8 000.00

Market Forces I, 2005 Etching, 60x85cm, R 8 000.00

Sam Nhlengethwa

Ed 25

Ed 25

Stranded, 2008, Lithograph 24,5x30,5cm, R 5 630.00

Left Alone, 2008, Lithograph 24,5x30,5cm, R 5 630.00

Sam Nhlengethwa

Tribute to Cecil Skotnes, Lithograph, 49,5x69cm, R 11 480.00 Ed 50

Tribute to Helen Sebidi, Lithograph, 49,5x69cm, R 11 480.00 Ed 50

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