Walter Battiss
Living Bush
About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Living Bush
c.1963
signed
oil on canvas
50 by 40,5cm excluding frame; 76 by 65,5 by 4,5cm including frame
Provenance
Mr and Mrs H Berman, and thence by descent.
Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 17 May 2021, lot 218.
Private Collection.
Literature
Karin Skawran and Michael Macnamara (1985) Walter Battiss, Johannesburg; AD Donker, illustrated in colour as plate 39 on page 161 with the title Animated Bush.
Susan Isaac and Jillian Carmen (2005) Walter Battiss: Gentle Anarchist, Johannesburg: Standard Bank Art Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 114.
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