What the Fook? The Life and Work of Walter Battiss
Timed Online Auction, 12 - 30 June 2025
What the Fook? The Life and Work of Walter Battiss
Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 37 520
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About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Acrobats (Plate 34)
signed, dated 1968, numbered Proof and inscribed with the title and 'To Murray' in pencil in the margin; inscribed with the title, date and medium on the reverse; inscribed with the artist's name, the date and title on a label adhered to the reverse
colour screenprint on paper
image size: 25 by 39,5cm; sheet size: 34 by 46cm; 25 by 39cm excluding frame; 46 by 61 by 3cm including frame
Provenance
The Collection of Professor Murray Schoonraad.
Literature
Warren Siebrits (ed) (2016) Walter Battiss: "I Invented Myself", exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 91, cat. no. 1968.49.S8*.
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