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Online-Only Auction, 18 - 25 October 2021

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ZAR 35 175
Lot 78
  • Walter Battiss; Banana Boy
  • Walter Battiss; Banana Boy
  • Walter Battiss; Banana Boy
  • Walter Battiss; Banana Boy
  • Walter Battiss; Banana Boy
  • Walter Battiss; Banana Boy


Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 35 175

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Banana Boy

signed and numbered Printer's Proof 3/3 in pencil in the margin

colour screenprint on paper
45 by 64cm excluding frame; 55,5 by 74 by 3cm including frame

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: 'I Invented Myself': The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 123.

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