Defining Impressions: A Selection of Prints from South African Studios
Live Virtual Auction, 6 November 2023
Session 1
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a portfolio of 28 original woodcuts, colophon signed by Cecil Skotnes and Stephen Gray in pencil; each print signed, some dated 77 and 78, and numbered Artist Proof IX/XV in pencil in the margin
Notes
A portfolio of 28 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes, six poems and text by Stephen Gray, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey, was published in Johannesburg from August 1975 to January 1979. These woodcuts were printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, edition limited to 75 copies and 15 Artist’s Proofs numbered I to XV, in a leather-bound solander box covered in full Oasis goatskin, made by Peter Carstens.
Cecil Skotnes exhibited at the Venice Biennale, South African Pavilion in 1958, 1964, and 1968.
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