William Kentridge

South African · b. 1955 · Painter, Printmaker

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he… (Wikipedia)

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Anti-EntropyPhillips · Jun 2019£375,000≈ $475,988≈ €418,267Sign up to see
Drawing for Stereoscope: Soho at Desk on TelephoneStrauss & Co · Nov 2014ZAR 4,092,480≈ $365,172≈ £229,639≈ €292,465Sign up to see
Dancing CoupleStrauss & Co · Jun 2017ZAR 4,092,480≈ $321,219≈ £248,795≈ €285,553Sign up to see

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Untitled (Artist Standing)
Etching · ed. 21/50
plate size: 17 by 20,5cm
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 138
ZAR 39,788≈ $2,733≈ £2,087≈ €2,345Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 35,000–50,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Notary's Embossing Press
Lithograph · ed. 14/20
image size: 26 by 18cm; sheet size: 53 by 43cm
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 150
ZAR 22,736≈ $1,562≈ £1,193≈ €1,340Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 25,000–40,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Staying Home
Etching · ed. 12/60
image size: 18,5 by 24,5cm
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 151
ZAR 36,378≈ $2,499≈ £1,908≈ €2,144Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 25,000–35,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Errors in School, Ptaismometry
Lithograph
image size: 18,5 by 25cm
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 152
ZAR 45,472≈ $3,123≈ £2,385≈ €2,680Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 25,000–35,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Drawing for 'Íl Sole 24 Ore'
Gouache · Paper
213 by 147cm excluding frame
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 354
ZAR 2,387,280≈ $163,982≈ £125,235≈ €140,685Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 1,800,000–2,400,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Ubu Tells the Truth, eight
Etching
plate sizes: 25 by 30cm
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 356
ZAR 431,984≈ $29,673≈ £22,662≈ €25,457Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 250,000–350,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Head: Blue
Etching
plate size: 103 by 79cm
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 374
ZAR 1,136,800≈ $78,087≈ £59,636≈ €66,993Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 600,000–800,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Highveld Landscape
Drawing · Paper
37 by 44cm excluding frame
Strauss & Co · Nov 13, 2017 · Lot 375
ZAR 795,760≈ $54,661≈ £41,745≈ €46,895Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 700,000–1,000,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Braz Cubas (Head and Stone)
Lithograph
image size: 17,5 by 22,5cm, unframed
Strauss & Co · Sep 18, 2017 · Lot 25
ZAR 28,104≈ $2,127≈ £1,571≈ €1,780Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 15,000–20,000View at Strauss & Co ↗
Poster for the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, Preparing the Flute, 4th June to 16th July 2005
Lithograph · ed. 199/200
sheet size: 79 by 66cm; 92 by 79 by 3,5cm including frame
Strauss & Co · Sep 18, 2017 · Lot 28
ZAR 46,840≈ $3,544≈ £2,618≈ €2,967Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. ZAR 10,000–15,000View at Strauss & Co ↗

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William Kentridge signature

753 catalogued lots by William Kentridge record a signature line. The most common placement is in the margin (85% of lots that state a placement). Most often: signed.

Placement

in the margin187
lower right20
lower left7
on the reverse5
lower centre1

Form

signed684
signed and dated55
initialled7
signed in pencil7

Signed 'KENTRIDGE' lower right — Drawing for Algiers, Phillips, Mar 7, 2026
Numbered '40/45' lower left; signed 'W Kentridge' lower right — Wait, Wait, Phillips, Oct 14, 2025
Signed lower right: WKentridge; editioned lower left — William Kentridge: Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Exhibition Poster, Leonard Joel, Apr 16, 2025

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About William Kentridge

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second's to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.

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