Walter Battiss
Fook Island Postage Stamps, four
LOT 645
Walter Battiss
Fook Island Postage Stamps, four
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ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
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About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Fook Island Postage Stamps, four
each signed
(1) numbered 235/350
(2) numbered 233/250
(3) numbered 180/250
(4) numbered 183/250
photolithograph on perforated paper
(1 and 2) sheet size: 26 by 22cm, unframed; (3 and 4) sheet size: 25,5 by 24cm, unframed
Notes
These stamps are a reproduction of an original watercolour by the artist Alpha Batt 115 (Self Portrait) produced in 1975. A lithographic reproduction was produced for the Fook exhibition at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, September 1975.
Literature
Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, page 158, cat. no. 1975.71 S8.
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