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Christo Coetzee

South African 1929-2000 


Initialy a member of the famous Wits Group of artists, abstract artist Christo Coetzee left South Africa for the United Kingdom in the early 1950s. The late 1950s found him in Japan, studying with the Gutai group of post WWII avant-garde artists. He travelled to Paris, via New York, where he worked in the early 1960s. After a brief sojourn in Spain, Coetzee returned to South Africa in 1969. He is most famous for slashing his canvases during the opening of an exhibition in Cape Town in 1975 and then subsequently reassembling the pieces in a phenomenally creative manner.


400 lots offered      63.00% sold      ZAR 13 446 409
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Christo Coetzee; Green Profile Series
10 Mar 2025
Starting at ZAR 3 000
Christo Coetzee; Head Series
10 Mar 2025
Starting at ZAR 3 000
Christo Coetzee; Flowers in an Ornamental Vase
10 Mar 2025
Starting at ZAR 12 000
Christo Coetzee; Blue Face
10 Mar 2025
Starting at ZAR 6 000
Christo Coetzee; Flowers in a Vase
10 Mar 2025
Starting at ZAR 10 000
Christo Coetzee; Still Life with Roses and Fruit
10 Mar 2025
Starting at ZAR 7 000
Christo Coetzee; Circular Abstract Composition
10 Feb 2025
Sold for ZAR 2 932
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Red and Black Tubular Form
2 Dec 2024
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Fine Strat, Spanje
2 Dec 2024
Starting at ZAR 12 000
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Christo Coetzee; Still Life
2 Dec 2024
Sold for ZAR 35 175
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Fish
2 Dec 2024
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Mantis
2 Dec 2024
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000