Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

174 549 Walter Whall BATTISS SOUTH AFRICAN 1 906-1982 Summer 1977 signed; inscribed with the title in pencil beneath the mount watercolour with heightening on Schoellers Parole paper 35 by 50cm R30 000–50 000 550 Cecil Edwin Frans SKOTNES SOUTH AFRICAN 1 926-2009 The Assassination of Shaka A portfolio of forty-three woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with captions by Steven Gray, 1973, with title page, edition limited to 225 copies, each woodcut signed, dated 73 and numbered 7/225 in pencil in the margin, the title page signed and dated by the artist and signed by the poet, in original linen portfolio woodcuts in colour sheet size: 50 by 33cm R30 000–50 000 551 Cecil Edwin Frans SKOTNES SOUTH AFRICAN 1 926-2009 The White Monday Disaster Thirteen original woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with text by Stephen Gray, 1975, printed in colours, with title and preface, edition limited to 125 copies and 25 artist’s proofs, this set numbered 62/125, each woodcut signed and dated by the artist, the title page signed by the artist and poet, in original full buckram binding sheet size: 56 by 73cm R20 000–30 000 549