Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 21 September 2022
Day Sale
All images © Succession Cecil Skotnes | DALRO
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 79 660
About this Item
South African 1926-2009
Two Figures
signed
pigment on incised wood
61 by 44,5cm excluding frame; 65 by 49 by 6cm including frame
Notes
This lovely smaller work emerges from Cecil Skotnes' immersion in relief printmaking, and the recognition of the block itself as the artwork, rather than just as the agent of the print. It retains the graphic quality of the print, the rolled surface with the pigment nested into the depressions of the panel. The panels he made at this time reflect a great period of imaginative creation of work that, once rooted in European traditions, is liberated in the bright air and brilliant inventiveness of his African home. I like to think this was a portrait of his lovely wife and her teenage child finding her voice!
-Pippa Skotnes,2022
Provenance
IN-FIN-ART, Cape Town.
Private Collection.
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