Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

177 520 Christo COETZEE SOUTH AFRICAN 1929-2001 Head with Roses, Tantra Discontinuity over Self Portrait, “Man 20” Curtain Face, two works conjoined signed, dated 87, inscribed with the title and ‘Tulbagh, Cape, SA’, and numbered 102; signed, dated 85, inscribed with the title and ‘Tulbagh, Cape, SA’, and numbered 107 mixed media and collage on paper 85 by 66cm R10 000 – 15 000 521 Christo COETZEE SOUTH AFRICAN 1929-2001 Gutai Painting signed, dated 78, numbered 63, inscribed with the title and ‘Tulbagh, Cape, SA’ mixed media on paper 51 by 64cm R15 000 – 20 000 Christo Coetzee was based in Paris from 1956 to 1961. It was there that he met members of the Gutai group, the most influential artistic movement in post-war Japan and among the most important international avant-garde movements of the 1950s and ‘60s. ‘Gutai’, meaning ’embodiment’, derives from the Japanese words for ‘tool’ and ‘body’. During a year spent in Japan in 1959 he explored shared interests in the performative aspects of art. The influence of Japanese calligraphy is also evident in the increasing elegance of his lines and brushwork. 520 521