Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 21 September 2022

Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 79 660
Lot 144
  • Cecil Skotnes; Two Figures
  • Cecil Skotnes; Two Figures
  • Cecil Skotnes; Two Figures


Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 79 660

About this Item

South African 1926-2009
Two Figures

signed

pigment on incised wood
61 by 44,5cm excluding frame; 65 by 49 by 6cm including frame

Notes

This lovely smaller work emerges from Cecil Skotnes’ immersion in relief printmaking, and the recognition of the block itself as the artwork, rather than just as the agent of the print. It retains the graphic quality of the print, the rolled surface with the pigment nested into the depressions of the panel. The panels he made at this time reflect a great period of imaginative creation of work that, once rooted in European traditions, is liberated in the bright air and brilliant inventiveness of his African home. I like to think this was a portrait of his lovely wife and her teenage child finding her voice!

—Pippa Skotnes,2022

Provenance

IN-FIN-ART, Cape Town.

Private Collection.

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