Modern and Contemporary Art
Timed Online Auction, 30 June - 10 July 2023
Crossing Frontiers: Art from the Eastern Cape
About this Item
dated 1976 and numbered 'portfolio no. 3' on the front cover; 12 linocut prints each signed, numbered 'artist's proof 3' and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin
Notes
Published by Joseph Wolpe Fine Art, Cape Town 1976.
The linocuts were executed in 1968. The editions are limited to 25 (nos. 2, 3, 4, 6,7 & 11) and to 20 (nos. 1, 5, 8, 9, 10 & 12) and were printed in 1976 on hand made Bütten paper size 476 × 640 mm by ABC Press (Pty) Ltd. Cape Town. Each print is individually titled, numbered and signed by the artist. The artist proof edition is limited to 5 and each was presented in a cloth-covered portfolio which is not present for this lot.
The present lot is accompanied by a copy of the book, Jeanne Wright and Cecil Kerbel (2011) Fred Page: Ringmaster of the Imagination, South Africa: Cecil Kerbel and Jeanne Wright.
Literature
Jeanne Wright and Cecil Kerbel (2011) Fred Page: Ringmaster of the Imagination, South Africa: Cecil Kerbel and Jeanne Wright, illustrated on page 31 to 34.
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