Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 14 March 2016

Session 4

Sold for

ZAR 73 892
Lot 521
  • Christo Coetzee; Repaired Hole & Discism


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 73 892

About this Item

South African 1929-2000
Repaired Hole & Discism

signed and dated 72; signed twice, dated 27/1/75, inscribed with the title and 'Protest exhibition' on the reverse

mixed media on canvas laid down on board
93 by 66cm excluding frame

Notes

“For myself, an intuitive happening of this kind made in protestation by apparent destruction should also be considered as an act of construction, I think, especially when related to my work of the Fifties.” Christo Coetzee. PROTESTISM – IS IT ART? Summary of a public lecture at the former SA Association of Arts (Western Cape) in Cape Town on 7 February 1975 published in Muller Ballot. (1999) Christo Coetzee, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau. Page 85.

Exhibited

SA Association of Arts, Cape Town, Christo Coetzee: Protest Exhibition, 1975.

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