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160 449 Cecil Edwin Frans SKOTNES SOUTH AFRICAN 1926-2009 Robben Island series signed and dated Dec. 87; inscribed with the artist’s name and address on the reverse pencil and watercolour 57 by 83cm R30 000 – 50 000 PROVENANCE Acquired from the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee exhibition, Detention Without Trial: 100 Artists Protest, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, 31 January to 5 March 1988 cf. Frieda Harmsen, Cecil Skotnes , South African National Gallery, 1996, page 239, where a comparable work from the Collection of the South African National Gallery is illustrated. 450 Pippa Ann SKOTNES SOUTH AFRICAN 1957 Sound From The Thinking Strings A visual, literary, archaeological and historical interpretation of the final years of /Xam life Three original colour etchings and seventeen original monochrome etchings, each signed and numbered 1/50 in pencil in the margin Translations from the Bleek and Lloyd collection of interviews with //KABBO, /HAN≠KASSO and DIA!KWAIN by StephenWatson Essays by John Parkington and Nigel Penn Foreward by Stephen Jay Gould Printed by Omega Art Published by Axeage Private Press, Cape Town, 1991 in original linen slip cover 39 by 33cm R30 000 – 40 000 PROVENANCE A gift from the artist to the current owner 449