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Timed Online Auction, 17 - 27 November 2023
Art Club
About this Item
signed with the artist's initials and inscribed on the front endpaper in pencil
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.