Strauss & co - 10 October 2016, Cape Town

603 Walter Whall BATTISS SOUTH AFRICAN 1 906-1982 Girl Turning into a Woman signed oil on canvas 30,5 by 40,5cm R180 000–240 000 EXHIBITED Stevenson, Cape Town, South African Art Now 1848 - Now , Catalogue 18, December 2005. Page 17, illustrated in colour on page 20. “As Battiss grew older so his work grew bolder, and the oils from his last years are painted in fluid and broad brushstrokes. His portrayal of people was often underscored by elements of eroticism... In Girl Turning into a Woman he has calligraphically sketched the breasts and genitalia of the women against flat planes of colour reflecting the austerity of the Karoo landscape.” 283