Surveying His Escape
Print
2021 (printed)
2021 (printed)
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This photogravure print was acquired by the National Art Library AL along with a deluxe copy of the The Nose, a short story by Gogol in a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin, published by Arion Press in 2021. The presentation is playful and elaborate, inspired by the exuberant typography and avant-garde book arts of early 20th-century Russia. South African artist William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear sheets of the 19th-century tabloid The Illustrated London News, which have been reproduced in full-colour offset lithography on tinted backgrounds. This print, entitled ‘Surveying His Escape’, photogravure and chine collé, is in the more painterly style that characterises Kentridge’s hand-drawn animated films.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Photogravure and chine colle on paper |
| Brief description | William Kentridge: 'Surveying His Escape', photogravure with chine colle, 2021. Illustration to a new edition of Gogol's The Nose, published separately. |
| Physical description | A monochrome print showing a landscape with a bare tree to the left and at the centre a figure with a large black nose in place of the head. |
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| Copy number | 23/40 |
| Marks and inscriptions | 23/40 |
| Summary | This photogravure print was acquired by the National Art Library AL along with a deluxe copy of the The Nose, a short story by Gogol in a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin, published by Arion Press in 2021. The presentation is playful and elaborate, inspired by the exuberant typography and avant-garde book arts of early 20th-century Russia. South African artist William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear sheets of the 19th-century tabloid The Illustrated London News, which have been reproduced in full-colour offset lithography on tinted backgrounds. This print, entitled ‘Surveying His Escape’, photogravure and chine collé, is in the more painterly style that characterises Kentridge’s hand-drawn animated films. |
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| Accession number | E.1-2022 |
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| Record created | December 21, 2021 |
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