Strauss & co - 16 October 2017, Cape Town

297 600 Walter Battiss SOUTH AFRICAN 1906-1982 Site: Die Kromelmboog, P.O. Cedarville, Dist. Matatiele signed, dated June 1957 and inscribed with the title watercolour over pencil on paper 93 by 121cm R  –   PROVENANCE Prof. Murray Schoonraad and thence by descent. LITERATURE Karin Skawran and Michael Macnamara. (eds.) (1985) Walter Battiss. Johannesburg: AD Donker. Illustrated on page 42, with the title Bushman painting from Farm Kromelmboog, East Griqualand . Murray Schoonraad. (1976) Walter Battiss . Cape Town and Johannesburg: C Struik Publishers. Illustrated on pages 33, with the title Eland (copy of rock painting from the farm Kromelmboog, Eastern Cape) and on page 186, Fig 73 with caption transposed with Fig 72.