Important South African Art
Live Auction, 16 May 2011
Session One
All images © Succession Cecil Skotnes | DALRO
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 46 788
About this Item
South African 1926-2009
Man's Gold
1975
28 woodcuts each signed, dated and inscribed 71/75 in pencil in the margin
woodcuts in colour
sheet size: 38,5 by 53,5cm
Notes
28 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes, 6 poems and text by Stephen Grey, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey. These woodcuts were printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, each copy is hand bound in Oasis goat skin by Peter Carstens, Johannesburg, August 1975 - January 1979.
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