Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

215 617 Hylton NEL SOUTH AFRICAN 1941 Orator impressed with the artist’s initials yellow glazed earthenware height: 34,5cm R8 000 – 10 000 cf. Melanie Hillebrand, Hylton Nel, Retrospective Exhibition, King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, 2001, page 39, where a green-glazed example is illustrated 615 Hylton NEL SOUTH AFRICAN 1941 Two Cats both signed with the artist’s initials and dated 5-3-93 glazed earthenware both 25cm high (2) R12 000 – 16 000 613 Walter Whall BATTISS SOUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 Untitled; Untitled (Men and Alphabet), two signed and numbered 76/250; signed and inscribed A/P both executed in 1979 screenprint in colours both 29,5 by 42cm (2) R12 000 – 16 000 PROVENANCE E. Schweickerdt, Pretoria, No. 31692 EXHIBITED cf. Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Walter Battiss Gentle Anarchist, Retrospective, 20 October - 3 December 2005, catalogue page 187, where another example from the edition is illustrated in colour 614 Walter Whall BATTISS SOUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 Rock Artist; and Untitled, two both executed in 1979, signed and numbered 76/250 in pencil in the margin screenprint in colours both 29,5 by 42cm (2) R12 000 – 16 000 PROVENANCE E. Schweickerdt, Pretoria, No. 31692 EXHIBITED cf. Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Walter Battiss Gentle Anarchist, Retrospective, 20 October - 3 December 2005, catalogue pages 187 and 191, where other examples of both are illustrated in colour 616 Hylton NEL SOUTH AFRICAN 1941 Ecco l’uomo inscribed with the title, and ‘Hylton me fecit to 1987 ’ on the reverse glazed earthenware height: 43cm R10 000 – 15 000 LITERATURE Michael Stevenson, Hylton Nel, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, and The Fine Art Society, London, 2003, page 91, illustrated 615 616 617 Property of the Estate Late Phil du Plessis