Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine
Online-Only Auction, 4 - 16 March 2020
Paintings
Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070
About this Item
South African 1959-
Auto-da-fé
signed
oil on canvas
121 by 121cm excluding frame; 131 by 131 by 3,5cm including frame
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.
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.
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