Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

521 Christo COETZEE SOUTH AFRICAN 1 929-2000 Repaired Hole & Discism signed and dated 72; signed twice, dated 27/1/75, inscribed with the title and ‘Protest exhibition’on the reverse mixed media on canvas laid down on board 93 by 66cm R70 000–90 000 “For myself, an intuitive happening of this kind made in protestation by apparent destruction should also be considered as an act of construction, I think, especially when related to my work of the Fifties.”Christo Coetzee. PROTESTISM – IS IT ART? Summary of a public lecture at the former SA Association of Arts (Western Cape) in Cape Town on 7 February 1975 published in Muller Ballot. (1999) Christo Coetzee , Cape Town: Human & Rousseau. Page 85. 522 Christo COETZEE SOUTH AFRICAN 1 929-2000 Simon’s Icon signed and dated 99; signed, dated and inscribed with the title on the reverse enamel on board 117,5 by 120,5cm R100 000–150 000 521 272