South African and International Art
Online-Only Auction, 7 - 20 April 2015
Twentieth Century South African Art
All images © Succession Cecil Skotnes | DALRO
Lot Estimate
ZAR 2 500 - 3 500
Selling Price
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ZAR 4 919
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About this Item
South African 1926-2009
Veld Fire
signed and numbered 75/75 in pencil in the margin
colour woodcut
image size: 37 by 49cm excluding frame; 63,5 by 88 by 3cm including frame
Notes
From the portfolio Ten Landscapes, 1976. Originally with poem by Stephen Gray:
There's no averting the kind of gale
that smears fire beneath it
no deflecting the hopscotch flames
storming from low ravines to the sky
and if the grass is skinned painfully
stropped across like a razor
and firebrands burst like bombshells
and sirens go as if it's doomsday
hold on - because tomorrow
it turns black and grey and green.