Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 10 October 2016

Important South African & International Art
  • Walter Battiss; Girl Turning into a Woman


Lot Estimate
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Girl Turning into a Woman

signed

oil on canvas
30,5 by 40,5cm excluding frame

Notes

"As Battiss grew older so his work grew bolder, and the oils from his last years are painted in fluid and broad brushstrokes. His portrayal of people was often underscored by elements of eroticism... In Girl turning into a Woman he has calligraphically sketched the breasts and genitalia of the women against flat planes of colour reflecting the austerity of the Karoo landscape." From Stevenson exhibition catalogue, December 2005. Page 17, illustrated in colour on page 20.

Exhibited

Stevenson, Cape Town, South African Art Now 1848 - Now, Catalogue 18, December 2005

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