Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

269 537 Cecil SKOTNES SOUTH AFRICAN 1926–2009 Citadel executed in 1995-6 signed; bears a SANG label on the reverse acrylic and pigments on panel 115 by 112 cm, in the artist’s incised, painted and brass-mounted frame R  –   ©The Estate of Cecil Skotnes | DALRO This lot is larger in scale than the other work, and additionally features a shelf-like display of stoneware, each object clearly delineated (as if refuting Morandi’s habit of clustering objects). Despite its unusual spatial distortions, this is fundamentally a work of pleasure: a painter’s delight in his medium as much as the bounty his painting describes. 1. Frieda Harmsen. (1996) ‘Artist Resolute’, in Cecil Skotnes . Cape Town: Cecil Skotnes, page 28. 2. Ibid., page 45. 3. James Ambrose Brown, (1984) ‘Interview with Cecil Skotnes’, 20 April, Cape Town, uncorrected typed transcript, page 19. Available at http://cecilskotnes.com EXHIBITED South African National Gallery, Cecil Skotnes Retrospective Exhibition , 1996 LITERATURE Frieda Harmsen. (ed.) (1996) Cecil Skotnes , Cape Town: South African National Gallery. Illustrated in colour on page 214.