Strauss & co - 11 November 2019, Johannesburg

130 133 Edoardo Villa SOUTH AFRICAN 1915–2011 Interlocking (Bird) 1985 signed and numbered 3/6 bronze with green patina on a granite base height: 29 cm including base R60 000 – 90 000 LITERATURE Chris de Klerk and Gerard de Kamper (2012) Villa in Bronze , Pretoria: University of Pretoria. Illustrated in colour on page 131. 132 Edoardo Villa SOUTH AFRICAN 1915–2011 Abstract Mask signed and dated 1997 welded steel height: 66 cm R60 000 – 100 000 PROVENANCE The Estate of Vittorino Meneghelli, Johannesburg. After working mainly with constructions of steel pipes in the 1970s, Villa produced, in the mid- 1980s, a series of organic, playful and sometimes erotic compositions or groups of intertwined figures with juxtapositions of rounded masses and angled planes. He referred to these works in bronze as ‘conversations’ between forms..