Auto-da-fé (Act of Faith)

Notes

"The work shows a ritual public execution of heretics of the kind held during the Spanish Inquisition − except that the event is imagined to take place in contemporary South Africa, on Church Square in Grahamstown, the city of my birth." Cyril Coetzee (1993) Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Unisa Art Gallery, page 25.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 16 March 2020, lot 318.

Private Collection.

Exhibited

Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, 1993.

Literature

Cyril Coetzee (1993) Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Unisa Art Gallery, illustrated on the cover in colour.