The Professor Leon Strydom Collection and Sixty Years of Collecting Linn Ware, The David Hall Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 10 August 2021

Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, The Professor Leon Strydom Collection

Sold for

ZAR 51 210
Lot 206
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird
  • Walter Battiss; Man, Tree and Bird


Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 51 210

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Man, Tree and Bird

signed, numbered 6/25 and inscribed '2nd state' in pencil in the margin

linocut
image size: 45,5 by 36cm; 68 by 59 by 3,5cm including frame

Provenance

The Professor Leon Strydom Collection.

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 113. Murray Schoonraad (1976) Walter Battiss, Cape Town and Johannesburg: South African Art Library, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 48.

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