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)
18 works by William Kentridge with an auction history (offered more than once) →
1 work by William Kentridge coming up at auction · bid with the house ↓
Record prices
Anti-EntropyPhillips · £375,000≈ $475,988≈ €418,267Sign up to see
Drawing for Stereoscope: Soho at Desk on TelephoneStrauss & Co · ZAR 4,092,480≈ $365,172≈ £229,639≈ €292,465Sign up to see
Dancing CoupleStrauss & Co · ZAR 4,092,480≈ $321,219≈ £248,795≈ €285,553Sign up to see
William Kentridge’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Coming up at auction
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Listed from the auction houses’ own websites; estimates are the houses’ own, not results.
847 results · page 20 of 22
- Act III Scene II, 2017Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 40,000–60,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 40,000–60,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 50,000–70,000
- Bird Catcher, 2006Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 300,000–400,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 600,000–800,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 750,000–850,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 350,000–450,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $5,000–7,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. ZAR 600,000–800,000
- Deserts of Egypt, 2008Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $30,000–40,000
Also offered, result not published (1)
Lots by William Kentridge that were offered at auction where the house did not publish whether they sold. Not counted in any statistics.
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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
Form
Signed 'KENTRIDGE' lower right
— Drawing for Algiers, Phillips, Mar 7, 2026Numbered '40/45' lower left; signed 'W Kentridge' lower right
— Wait, Wait, Phillips, Oct 14, 2025Signed lower right: WKentridge; editioned lower left
— William Kentridge: Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Exhibition Poster, Leonard Joel, Apr 16, 2025
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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