July ART

Timed Online Auction, 3 - 14 July 2025

Prints and Multiples

Sold for

ZAR 9 380
Lot 187
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island


Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 9 380
Shipping
Condition Report
May include additional detailed images

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Fook Island

signed, numbered 3/30 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin

colour screenprint on paper
image size: 38 by 55,5cm; 62 by 80 by 2cm including frame

Literature

Murray Schoonraad (1976) Walter Battiss, South African Art Library Cape Town: C Struik, another impression from the edition illustrated in black and white on page 13.

Jillian Carman and Susan Isaac (eds) (2005) Walter Battiss: Gentle Anarchist, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: Standard Bank Gallery, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 51.

Warren Siebrits (ed) (2016) Walter Battiss: "I Invented Myself", exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression from the edition illustrated on page 121 and 312, cat. no. 1973.01 S8*.

Provenance

Elizabeth Art Gallery, 1977.

Private Collection.

View all Walter Battiss lots for sale in this auction