William Kentridge South African, b. b.1955
A Formal Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist, 1980
pencil on paper
51 x 72 cm
signed, dated 17 November 1980, inscribed with the title and embossed with an Irene Antoinette Geffen Transvaal Notary stamp
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Irene Antoinette Geffen (née Newmark) was the first female lawyer in South Africa. She was admitted to the bar in the Transvaal in 1923. Geffen published The Laws of South...
Irene Antoinette Geffen (née Newmark) was the first female lawyer in South Africa. She was admitted to the bar in the Transvaal in 1923. Geffen published The Laws of South Africa affecting Women and Children in 1928. It covered nationality law, tax law, and voting rights, among other topics. Irene Geffen lived with her husband Max Geffen in Johannesburg; both were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. She left practice when her first daughter, Zoe, was born. Her younger daughter, Lady Felicia Kentridge (1930-2015), was also an attorney and ran the legal clinic at the Law Faculty of the University of the Witwatersrand. Lady Felicia Kentridge was William Kentridge’s mother.
