Walter Battiss
Birds in a Cage
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 19 933
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About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Birds in a Cage
signed and inscribed with the title and 'first artist's proof' twice in pencil in the margin; dated 1973 on the reverse of the sheet.
colour screenprint on paper
image size: 35 by 52,5cm; 88 by 107 by 4cm including frame
Provenance
The Collection of Professor Murray Schoonraad.
Literature
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 186.
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 1973.35 S8.
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