Cecil Skotnes
Man's Gold, portfolio
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LOT 507
Cecil Skotnes
Man's Gold, portfolio
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
ZAR 32 000
About this Item
South African 1926-2009
Man's Gold, portfolio
each woodcut signed and numbered 'Trial' and dated 77 or 78 in pencil in the margin
colour woodcuts
each sheet size: 38 by 53,5cm; solander box: 41 by 56,5 by 5cm
Notes
A portfolio of 28 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes, 6 poems and text by Stephen Gray, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey, published in Johannesburg from August 1975 to January 1979. These woodcuts were printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, edition limited to 75 copies and 15 Artist's Proofs numbered I to XV, in a leather-bound solander box covered in full Oasis goatskin, made by Peter Carstens.
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