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111 187 Cecil Edwin Frans SKOTNES south african 1926–2009 The Assassination of Shaka A portfolio of forty-three woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes with captions by Stephen Gray, 1973, with title page, edition limited to 225 copies, each woodcut signed, dated 73, numbered 185/225 and inscribed ‘No. 1–43’ in pencil in the margins, the title page signed and dated by the artist and signed by the poet, in the original linen portfolio colour woodcuts sheet size: 50 by 33 cm, each portfolio size: 54 by 36 by 5 cm R30 000 – R40 000 188 Cecil Edwin Frans SKOTNES south african 1926–2009 Images A portfolio of eight colour lithographs, each signed and numbered 7/100 in pencil, title page numbered 7/100 in ink, with foreword by Esmé Berman, April 1969, accompanied by a woodcut, signed and numbered 7/100 and a pastel drawing, signed, dated 69, inscribed ‘Original Drawing’and ‘Folio no. 7’, in the original portfolio cover colour lithographs, woodcut and pastel lithograph sheet size: 57,5 by 45 cm, each R10 000 – R15 000 ©The Estate of Cecil Skotnes | DALRO ©The Estate of Cecil Skotnes | DALRO 187 188