Modern and Contemporary Art
Timed Online Auction, 30 June - 10 July 2023
Crossing Frontiers: Art from the Eastern Cape
Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 23 450
About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Fragments of Africa, portfolio
1951
signed, numbered 37/250, inscribed with the title and illustrated on the front cover; a dedication 'To TWL MacDermot' on an illustrated dedication page; introduction preface signed by Herman J Hahndiek, initialed 'WB'; 22 folders with cut-out windows with prints in full colour, each titled on the mount in pencil
various media on paper
prints: various sizes; outside folder: 46,5 by 31 by 1,5cm
Notes
Published by Red Fawn Press, Pretoria, 1951.
Bound in an original wrapped cardboard folder.
Literature
Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, other impressions from this portfolio are illustrated in colour on pages 51 and 53, and the cover of the portfolio and a detailed description of its colophon are on pages 316 and 317.
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