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Lot Estimate
ZAR 9 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
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Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070
About this Item
South African 1906-1982
Elephant Man
signed, numbered 20/25, and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin
silkscreen on paper
48 by 39cm excluding frame; 68 by 57 by 3cm including frame
Exhibited
Gallery 21, United Kingdom, Walter Battiss - New Serigraphs, 1973, another impression from the edition illustrated in the catalogue on page 5.
Literature
Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression with a different title, Something like an Elephant, from the edition illustrated in colour on page 123 with the catalogue number 1973.26 S8*.
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