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Timed Online Auction, 17 - 27 November 2023

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  • Walter Battiss; Mesmerik Poo Writtet Fookbat, Artist's Copy and Fook poem, two
  • Walter Battiss; Mesmerik Poo Writtet Fookbat, Artist's Copy and Fook poem, two
  • Walter Battiss; Mesmerik Poo Writtet Fookbat, Artist's Copy and Fook poem, two


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Mesmerik Poo Writtet Fookbat, Artist's Copy and Fook poem, two

signed with the artist's initials and inscribed on the front endpaper in pencil

artist's book
book: 42,5 by 30,5 by 2cm; poem: 32 by 23,5cm

Notes

Inscriptions: " I wrote the script and took the photographs W.B."

"This book was on my Retrospective at Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 1979. Nowhere else."

"Even the proper names in Stravinsky's text, (Les Noces "The Wedding") Such as Palagy or Savelyouchka, belong to no one in particular. They were chosen for their sound, their syllables and their Russian typicality".

Exhibited

Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Walter Battiss Restrospective Exhibition, 1979.

Literature

The Walter Battiss Company and The Ampersand Foundation (2016) Walter Battiss: "I Invented Myself”, The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, illustrated in colour on page 294.

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