Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine
Online-Only Auction, 16 - 23 November 2020
Prints and Multiples
Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 500 - 4 500
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 035
About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Baboons
signed and inscribed with the title and with a dedication "To Schelpe with best wishes"
wood engraving
16 by 12cm excluding frame; 39 by 33 by 1,5cm including frame
Provenance
Gifted to Professor Edmund André Charles Louis Eloi Schelpe by the artist for his assistance in showing him the rock art in the Drakensberg during WWII.
Literature
Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation. Another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 37, catalogue number 1943.04.56.
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