Strauss & co - 8 June 2019, Johannesburg

181 Cecil Skotnes SOUTH AFRICAN 1926–2009 Man’s Gold 28 woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes printed from original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther, accompanied by 6 poems and text by Stephen Gray, based on ideas by Denis Godfrey. Each copy of the book hand bound in Oasis goat skin by Peter Carstens, Johannesburg, August 1975 to January 1979, with a linen-covered slipcase. Edition limited to 75 copies and 15 artist’s proofs, this numbered 58/75; title page signed by both the artist and the poet and each woodcut signed by the artist and numbered 58/75 in pencil in the margin. colour woodcuts sheet size: 38,5 by 53,5 cm; book: 39,5 by 56c by 6m; slip case: 40,5 by 56,5 by 7,5 cm R30 000 – 40 000