Johannesburg Auction Week
Live Virtual Auction, 16 - 17 May 2022
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 62 590
About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Nauplion
signed and dated 7.7.81
watercolour on artist's board
36,5 by 51cm excluding frame; 48 by 62,5 by 4cm including frame
Notes
The coastal city of Nauplion (also known as Nafplio) located in the Peloponnese in Greece was founded in antiquity and over the centuries has come under the sway of the Byzantines, the Franks, the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire before becoming part of modern Greece during the Greek War of Independence in 1822.
Provenance
Inherited from the artist's estate.
Literature
Susan Isaac and Jillian Carmen (2005) Walter Battiss: Gentle Anarchist, Johannesburg: Standard Bank Art Gallery, another work of the same view of the same date illustrated in colour on page 130.
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