Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

152 528 Cecil Higgs SOUTH AFRICAN 1898-1986 Mother and Child signed and dated 1940 oil on canvas 34,5 by 34,5cm R40 000 - 60 000 PROVENANCE Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, 16 May 2011, lot 35. 529 Christo Coetzee SOUTH AFRICAN 1929-2000 Ken Campbell signed, dated ’83, numbered 23, inscribed ‘Tulbagh Cape SA’and ‘Ken Campbell in Jerusalem producing “Illuminatus[!]”at the Khan [Theatre]”’ oil on paper and collage 68 by 51cm R35 000 - 50 000 PROVENANCE Deon Viljoen. Private Collection. During the 1980s and 1990s, Christo Coetzee produced a number of mixed media works on paper, of which the depiction of a head became a recurrent theme. The inscription on the present lot reads “Ken Campbell in Jerusalem producing ‘Illuminatus’at the Khan”. In 1967, the Khan Theatre opened as a repertory theatre and has since become central to Jerusalem’s arts and culture scene. Campbell was an English writer, actor, director, and comedian who co- founded the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool in 1976. The theatre was formed to stage an experimental adaptation of Illuminatus! , a nine-hour cycle of five plays based on the science fiction fantasy novel trilogy of the same name. Campbell went on to direct many more experimental theatre productions – e.g. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – and has been described as being “…the door through which many hundreds of kindred souls entered a madder, braver, brighter, funnier and more complex universe.” 1 1. Gemma Bodinetz (2008)“Ken Campbell: A Tribute”, [Online], Available: https://web. archive.org/web/20080925081320/http :// www.everymanplayhouse.com/news/full- story.asp?Article_ID=546 [2019, August 14] 528 529 530 531