Saturday Live
Live Auction, 8 June 2019
Session One
All images © Succession Cecil Skotnes | DALRO
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
About this Item
South African 1926-2009
The Assassination of Shaka, portfolio and book
portfolio: A portfolio of 43 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with captions by Stephen Gray, 1973, with title and preface, edition limited to 225 copies, this set numbered 192/225, each woodcut signed, dated 73 and numbered 192/225 in pencil in the margin, the title page signed and dated by the artist and signed by the poet, in original linen portfolio case;
book: Johannesburg: McGraw-Hill, 1974, signed by the artist and the poet, limited edition number 186 of 250, illustrations including one original woodcut signed by the artist in pencil in the margin, cloth binding, in original cloth slipcase
mixed media
portfolio: sheet size: each 50,5 by 33cm; portfolio case: 54 by 35,5 by 4,5cm; book: 35 by 24,5 by 2cm; slip case: 36 by 25 by 2,5cm
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