South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Books

Online-Only Auction, 27 January - 6 February 2017

Paintings and Sculpture
  • Cecil Skotnes; Shaka Kills the Mamba
  • Cecil Skotnes; Shaka Kills the Mamba
  • Cecil Skotnes; Shaka Kills the Mamba
  • Cecil Skotnes; Shaka Kills the Mamba
  • Cecil Skotnes; Shaka Kills the Mamba
  • Cecil Skotnes; Shaka Kills the Mamba


Lot Estimate
ZAR 2 000 - 4 000

About this Item

South African 1926-2009
Shaka Kills the Mamba

signed, dated 73 and numbered 145/225 in pencil in the margin

colour woodcut
sheet size: 50 by 33cm, unframed

Notes

Accompanied by a poem with the same title by Stephen Gray

Literature

Cecil Skotnes and Stephen Gray (1974) The Assassination of Shaka: By Mhlangane Dingane and Mbopa on 22 September 1828 at Dukuza by which Act the Zulu Nation First Lost its Empire, Johannesburg: McGraw-Hill, number 6.

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