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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.

399 lots offered      62.91% sold      ZAR 13 443 478
 

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Christo Coetzee; Mobius Infinity Chain
15 Mar 2010
Sold for ZAR 44 560
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Expanding Ovoid Gama or Orange Sun
7 Sep 2009
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Portrait of a Lady
9 Mar 2009
Sold for ZAR 31 192
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT