South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 4 February 2013

Paintings Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 46 788
Lot 449
  • Cecil Skotnes; Robben Island series


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 46 788

About this Item

South African 1926-2009
Robben Island series

signed and dated Dec. 87; inscribed with the artist's name and address on the reverse

pencil and watercolour
57 by 83cm excluding frame

Notes

cf. Frieda Harmsen, Cecil Skotnes, South African National Gallery, 1996, page 239, where a comparable work from the Collection of the South African National Gallery is illustrated.
 

Provenance

Acquired from the Detainees' Parents Support Committee exhibition, Detention Without Trial: 100 Artists Protest, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, 31 January to 5 March 1988

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