Important South Africa and International Art

Live Auction, 23 May 2016

Day Sale

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ZAR 52 293
Lot 218
  • Cecil Skotnes; Man's Gold
  • Cecil Skotnes; Man's Gold
  • Cecil Skotnes; Man's Gold
  • Cecil Skotnes; Man's Gold
  • Cecil Skotnes; Man's Gold


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 52 293

About this Item

South African 1926-2009
Man's Gold

A portfolio of twenty-eight woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes, 6 poems and text by Stephen Gray, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey. These woodcuts were printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, each copy is hand bound in Oasis goat skin by Peter Carstens, Johannesburg, August 1975 to January 1979, edition limited to 75 copies and 15 artist's proofs, this numbered 65/75, each woodcut signed and numbered 65/75 in pencil in the margin, the title page signed by both the artist and poet

colour woodcuts
sheet size: 38,5 by 53,5cm

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