Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

166 496 Walter Whall BATTISS s OUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 The Apple signed oil on canvas 60,5 by 60,5cm R60 000 – 80 000 497 Walter Whall BATTISS s OUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 One Way Street signed and inscribed ‘One Way Str’ and ‘proof’ in pencil in the margin silkscreen in colours image size: 34,5 by 41,5cm R10 000 – 15 000 498 Walter Whall BATTISS s OUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 Girl Skipping signed and inscribed ‘proof’ in pencil screenprint in colours image size: 52 by 63,5cm R6 000 – 8 000 495 Walter Whall BATTISS s OUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 Landscape with Houses signed and indistinctly dated 1941 (?) oil on canvas 29 by 40cm R15 000 – 20 000 496 Phil du Plessis, a medical doctor and practising psychoanalyst, had wide interests in art, literature, philosophy and music. He was a gifted poet with thirteen volumes of poetry published and an accomplished violinist who performed regularly with fellow musicians in chamber music recitals at Liscard, his historic home in Kalk Bay. A close friend of art cognoscenti such as Dr Raymund van Niekerk, former Director of the South African National Gallery, and of artists, including Johannes Meintjes, Walter Battiss, Christo Coetzee, Judith Mason, Andrew Verster and Hylton Nel, he acquired a substantial collection of fine art. Property of the Estate Late Phil du Plessis