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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.


406 lots offered      63.05% sold      ZAR 13 470 446
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Christo Coetzee; Halley's Comet
7 Nov 2011
Sold for ZAR 105 830
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; The Bride
16 May 2011
Sold for ZAR 20 052
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; A Still Life of Fruit in a Bowl
16 May 2011
Sold for ZAR 46 788
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Changing Symbol of the Majorca Flower
16 May 2011
Sold for ZAR 8 197
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; David
16 May 2011
Sold for ZAR 77 980
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Abstract Composition
16 May 2011
Sold for ZAR 31 192
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Byzantium Piero
16 May 2011
ZAR 120 000 - 180 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Flora
16 May 2011
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Et In Arcadia Ego
7 Mar 2011
Sold for ZAR 389 900
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; African Icon
7 Mar 2011
ZAR 50 000 - 80 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Black Hat and Roses
7 Mar 2011
Sold for ZAR 178 240
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; An Abstract Form
1 Nov 2010
Sold for ZAR 7 612
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT