Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine

Online-Only Auction, 4 - 16 March 2020

Paintings

Sold for

ZAR 14 070
Lot 318
  • Cyril Coetzee; Auto-da-fé
  • Cyril Coetzee; Auto-da-fé
  • Cyril Coetzee; Auto-da-fé
  • Cyril Coetzee; Auto-da-fé
  • Cyril Coetzee; Auto-da-fé


Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070

About this Item

South African 1959-
Auto-da-fé

signed

oil on canvas
121 by 121cm excluding frame; 131 by 131 by 3,5cm including frame

Notes

"The work shows a ritual public execution of heretics of the kind held during the Spanish Inquisition − except that the event is imagined to take place in contemporary South Africa, on Church Square in Grahamstown, the city of my birth." Cyril Coetzee (1993) Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Unisa Art Gallery, page 25.

Exhibited

Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, 1993.

Literature

Cyril Coetzee (1993) Cyril Coetzee Paintings and Drawings 1975−1993, exhibition catalogue, Pretoria: Unisa Art Gallery, illustrated on the cover in colour.

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