Strauss & co - 9 November 2015, Johannesburg

81 123 Cecil Edwin Frans SKOTNES south african 1926 – 2009 Man’s Gold A portfolio of twenty eight woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes, 6 poems and text by Stephen Gray, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey. These woodcuts were printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, each copy is hand bound in Oasis goat skin by Peter Carstens, Johannesburg, August 1975 to January 1979, edition limited to 75 copies and 15 artist proofs, this numbered Artist Proof XII/XV, each woodcut signed and numbered Artist Proof XII/XV in pencil in the margin, the title page signed by both the artist and poet colour woodcuts sheet size: 38,5 by 53,5 cm each portfolio size: 41 by 56,5 by 5 cm R30 000 – 40 000 124 Wopko JENSMA south african 1939 –? Figural Form I and II, two each signed with the artist’s initials and dated 73 mixed media on paper sheet size: 56 by 38 cm each (2) R18 000 – 24 000 124 123 ©The Estate of Cecil Skotnes | DALRO