Cyril Coetzee
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Cyril Coetzee
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ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 14 070
About this Item
South African 1959-
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signed
oil on canvas
121 by 121cm excluding frame; 131 by 131 by 3,5cm including frame
Exhibited
Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, 1993.
Literature
Cyril Coetzee (1993) Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Unisa Art Gallery, illustrated on the cover in colour.
Notes
"The work shows a ritual public execution of heretics of the kind held during the Spanish Inquisition − except that the event is imagined to take place in contemporary South Africa, on Church Square in Grahamstown, the city of my birth." Cyril Coetzee (1993) Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Unisa Art Gallery, page 25.
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