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Christo Coetzee

South African 1929-2000 


Initialy a member of the famous Wits Group of artists, abstract artist Christo Coetzee left South Africa for the United Kingdom in the early 1950s. The late 1950s found him in Japan, studying with the Gutai group of post WWII avant-garde artists. He travelled to Paris, via New York, where he worked in the early 1960s. After a brief sojourn in Spain, Coetzee returned to South Africa in 1969. He is most famous for slashing his canvases during the opening of an exhibition in Cape Town in 1975 and then subsequently reassembling the pieces in a phenomenally creative manner.


374 lots offered      65.24% sold      ZAR 13 371 135
 

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Christo Coetzee; Green Profiles, Salvaciones de los Barros Series
8 May 2023
Sold for ZAR 4 456
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Abstract Form
8 May 2023
Starting at ZAR 5 500
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Christo Coetzee; Profile
8 May 2023
Starting at ZAR 3 800
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Christo Coetzee; Abstract Collage
11 Apr 2023
Starting at ZAR 7 000
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Christo Coetzee; Speckled Abstract
11 Apr 2023
Starting at ZAR 5 000
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Christo Coetzee; Homage to Lubet Jovsky
13 Mar 2023
Starting at ZAR 4 500
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Christo Coetzee; Red and Black Tubular Forms
13 Mar 2023
Starting at ZAR 7 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Blue and Yellow Tubular Forms
13 Mar 2023
Sold for ZAR 8 208
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Christo Coetzee; Storm
13 Mar 2023
Sold for ZAR 2 932
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Christo Coetzee; Abstract Motif
13 Feb 2023
Starting at ZAR 16 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Rose
13 Feb 2023
Starting at ZAR 10 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Flowerpiece
28 Nov 2022
Starting at ZAR 20 000
 

Results in green indicate post sales.