Notes

Walter Battiss’s protracted Fook Island ‘happening’ from the late 1960s to the early 1980s resulted in a unique material culture, including an active literature. Fook Island generated its own newspaper, Fooks Nookspaaker, its own magazine, Fook Nooks, and two handmade artist’s books: Fook Book I and Fook Book II. The present lot, the twelve editioned and signed screenprints that appeared at the back of Fook Book I, are titled Log, Five Masks, Helios, Animal Tracks, Blue Circle, Red Form, Aprons, 8 Hats, Patterns, Feathers, Animal Hide and Sticks and Stones.

Provenance

Gallery Art on Paper, Johannesburg.

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: 'I Invented Myself': The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 318.