Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 8 November 2021

Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 34 140
Lot 56
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Book I
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Book I
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Book I
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Book I
  • Walter Battiss; Fook Book I


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 140

About this Item

South African 1906-1982
Fook Book I

each signed and numbered 30/50 in pencil on the margin

screenprint on punched paper
each sheet size: 22 by 17cm; 78,5 by 86 by 3,5cm including frame

Notes

Walter Battiss’s protracted Fook Island ‘happening’ from the late 1960s to the early 1980s resulted in a unique material culture, including an active literature. Fook Island generated its own newspaper, Fooks Nookspaaker, its own magazine, Fook Nooks, and two handmade artist’s books: Fook Book I and Fook Book II. The present lot, the twelve editioned and signed screenprints that appeared at the back of Fook Book I, are titled Log, Five Masks, Helios, Animal Tracks, Blue Circle, Red Form, Aprons, 8 Hats, Patterns, Feathers, Animal Hide and Sticks and Stones.

Provenance

Gallery Art on Paper, Johannesburg.

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: 'I Invented Myself': The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 318.

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