The Bacchae
Artwork details
- Artist
- William Kentridge
- Title
- The Bacchae
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- Silkscreen
- Edition
- Approximately 20 or 30, of which very few survive.
- Sheet
- 59.5 x 41.5 cm
- Status
- Sold
William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. In his drawings and animations, William Kentridge articulates the concerns of post-Apartheid South Africa with unparalleled nuance and lyricism. In the inventive process by which he created his best-known works, Kentridge draws and erases with charcoal, recording his compositions at each state. He then displays a video projection of the looped images alongside their highly worked and re-worked source drawings.
![Summer Graffiti [H] by William Kentridge at Peter Harrington Gallery](https://www.printed-editions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summer_Graffiti_H_by_William_Kentridge_From_Peter_Harrington_Gallery_455250-297x260.jpg)
![Summer Graffiti [G] by William Kentridge at Peter Harrington Gallery](https://www.printed-editions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summer_Graffiti_G_by_William_Kentridge_From_Peter_Harrington_Gallery_455252-297x260.jpg)
![Summer Graffiti [F] by William Kentridge at Peter Harrington Gallery](https://www.printed-editions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summer_Graffiti_F_by_William_Kentridge_From_Peter_Harrington_Gallery_455254-297x260.jpg)
![Summer Graffiti [E] by William Kentridge at Peter Harrington Gallery](https://www.printed-editions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summer_Graffiti_E_by_William_Kentridge_From_Peter_Harrington_Gallery_455256-297x260.jpg)
![Summer Graffiti [B] by William Kentridge at Peter Harrington Gallery](https://www.printed-editions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summer_Graffiti_B_by_William_Kentridge_From_Peter_Harrington_Gallery_455261-297x260.jpg)
![Summer Graffiti [A] by William Kentridge at Peter Harrington Gallery](https://www.printed-editions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Summer_Graffiti_A_by_William_Kentridge_From_Peter_Harrington_Gallery_455264-297x260.jpg)
