Cecil Skotnes
The Assassination of Shaka
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ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
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ZAR 23 420
About this Item
South African 1926-2009
The Assassination of Shaka
A portfolio of forty-three woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with captions by Stephen Gray, 1973, with title page, edition limited to 225 copies, each woodcut signed, dated 73, numbered 22/225 and inscribed 'No. 1-43' in pencil in the margins, the title page signed and dated by the artist and signed by the poet, in the original linen portfolio
colour woodcuts
sheet size: 50 by 33cm, each; portfolio size: 54 by 36 by 5cm
Notes
Accompanied by three newspaper articles written about the portfolio from 1973.
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