South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 4 February 2013

Paintings Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 33 420
Lot 450
  • Pippa Skotnes; Sound From The Thinking Strings
  • Pippa Skotnes; Sound From The Thinking Strings


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 33 420

About this Item

South African 1957-
Sound From The Thinking Strings

A visual, literary, archaeological and historical interpretation of the final years of /Xam life

Three original colour etchings and seventeen original monochrome etchings, each signed and numbered 1/50 in pencil in the margin

Translations from the Bleek and Lloyd collection of interviews with //KABBO, /HAN≠KASSO and DIA!KWAIN by Stephen Watson

Essays by John Parkington and Nigel Penn

Foreward by Stephen Jay Gould

Printed by Omega Art

Published by Axeage Private Press, Cape Town, 1991

39 by 33cm excluding frame

Notes

in original linen slip cover

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the current owner

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