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 8 000 - 12 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 8 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Boy with Birds (Plate 37)
signed, dated 30.4.1968 and inscribed 'Proof for Nesos' and 'For MS' in pencil in the margin; inscribed with the title, medium and date on the reverse
colour screenprint on paper
image size: 25 by 40,5cm; sheet size: 33,5 by 50cm; 45,5 by 62 by 3,5cm 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 93, cat. no. 1968.52 S8*.
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