William Kentridge - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 7, 2025 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2018

  • Exhibited

    New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, William Kentridge: Second-hand Reading, 17 September–26 October 2013 (another example exhibited)
    Sydney, Art Gallery​ of New South Wales; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, William Kentridge: That Which We Do Not Remember, 8 September 2018–8 September 2019, pp. 122, 151 (another example illustrated, p. 123)
    London, Whitechapel Gallery; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, William Kentridge Thick Time, 21 September 2016–3 March 2019, pp. 88, 234 (another example exhibited)

Property of a Distinguished Private Collection

203

Second-hand Reading

video HD flipbook film from drawings on single pages of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
duration: 7 minutes
Executed in 2013, this work is artist's proof 2 from an edition of 9 plus 3 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 ‡♠

Sold for £158,750

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 7 March 2025