Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art

Online-Only Auction, 30 May - 13 June 2022

Books, Portfolios, Sculpture and Ceramics
  • Cecil Skotnes; The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio
  • Cecil Skotnes; The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio
  • Cecil Skotnes; The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio
  • Cecil Skotnes; The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio
  • Cecil Skotnes; The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000

About this Item

South African 1926-2009
The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio

signed and dated 73 by the artist and the poet on the title page; each print signed, dated and numbered 207/225 in pencil in the margin

colour woodcuts
sheet size: 50 by 33cm; portfolio: 53,5 by 35 by 4cm

Notes

Forty-three woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with captions by Stephen Gray, 1973, with title page, edition limited to 225 copies, this set numbered 207/225, in original linen-covered solander box.

Provenance

Die Kunskamer, Cape Town, 1974.

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