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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; Vase with Flowers
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 15 243
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Portrait of a Woman
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 18 760
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Head I
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 4 690
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Espagne, 4 Hyper R Spanish Stones
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 14 070
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Abstract Vase and Rose
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 12 898
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Still Life
3 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 23 450
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Portrait of the Artist's Mother
25 Oct 2022
Sold for ZAR 23 450
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Paedomorphic Structure – Siren 2 (Homage to Michel Tapié de Céleyran, Paris 56)
25 Oct 2022
Sold for ZAR 8 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Speckled Abstract
25 Oct 2022
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Abstract Composition
3 Oct 2022
Sold for ZAR 2 580
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Christo Coetzee; Self Portrait with Hat
21 Sep 2022
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
 
Christo Coetzee; Violet
21 Sep 2022
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
 

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