November Online Part I

Online-Only Auction, 22 - 28 November 2021

Prints and Multiples
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island Postage Stamps
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island Postage Stamps
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island Postage Stamps
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island Postage Stamps
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island Postage Stamps
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Island Postage Stamps


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Fook Island Postage Stamps

signed and numbered 106/250 in pencil in the margin

photolithograph on perforated paper
sheet size: 25,5 by 21,5cm; 18,5 by 20cm excluding frame; 49 by 49 by 1cm including frame

Notes

These stamps are a reproduction of an original watercolour by the artist Alpha Batt 115 (Self Portrait) produced in 1975. A lithographic reproduction was produced for the Fook exhibition at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, September 1975. See Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, page 158, catalogue 1975.71 S8*.

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