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Etching · Paper
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Auction result
Refugees (You Will Find No Other Seas)
William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955)
ZAR 1,115,240 price realized incl. premium
≈ $62,632≈ £54,763≈ €62,389
Hammer ZAR 980,000 · with buyer’s premium ZAR 1,115,240
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- Medium
- Aquatint · Prints & multiples all aquatint results →As published: “lift ground aquatint etching printed on 100% Hemp Phumani handmade paper, mounted on raw cotton cloth folded (as a map) and housed in a handmade box covered in raw cotton cloth”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and numbered P/P I/II in red conté in the margin · William Kentridge signature
- Category
- Aquatints
- Dimensions
- item size: 169 by 244cm; box size: 35.5 by 45 by 6cm, unframed
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- Johannesburg Auction Week (212)
- Date
- November 9, 2022
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 363
- Estimate
- ZAR 600,000 – ZAR 800,000 (≈ $33,696 – $44,928) (≈ £29,462 – £39,283) (≈ €33,565 – €44,753)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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