April ART
Timed Online Auction, 11 - 22 April 2025
Impression/Expression
All images © Succession Cecil Skotnes | DALRO
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 40 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item
South African 1926-2009
Man's Gold, portfolio
a portfolio of 28 original woodcuts, colophon signed by Cecil Skotnes and Stephen Gray in pencil; each print signed, some dated 77 and 78, and numbered 74/75 in pencil in the margin
colour woodcuts in leather solander box
each image size: 28 by 40,5cm; each sheet size: 38 by 53,5cm; solander box: 41 by 56,5 by 5cm
Notes
A portfolio of 28 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes, six poems and text by Stephen Gray, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey, was published in Johannesburg from August 1975 to January 1979. These woodcuts were printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, edition limited to 75 copies and 15 Artist's Proofs numbered I to XV, in a leather-bound solander box covered in full Oasis goatskin, made by Peter Carstens.
Cecil Skotnes exhibited at the Venice Biennale, South African Pavilion in 1958, 1964, and 1968.
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