Karel Nel

Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head

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  • Karel Nel; Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head
  • Karel Nel; Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head
  • Karel Nel; Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head
  • Karel Nel; Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head
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Karel Nel
South African 1955-
Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head

signed with the artist's initials and inscribed with 'Siege ceremonial in forme de tête d'aligator. Site de Papaguyo N. O. du Costa Rica a.p. JC. 1200- 1600. Musée de l'Homme, Paris'.

graphite and Conté chalk on handmade paper
70 by 100cm excluding frame

Literature

Rory Doepel (1993). Karel Nel: Transforming Symbols, Johannesburg: Foundation for the Creative Arts, a work from the same series, shown hanging in the artist's studio, is illustrated in black and white on page 10.

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