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162 375 Edoardo Villa SOUTH AFRICAN 1915–2011 The Violin Player signed, dated 1949 and stamped ‘4’ bronze with a brown patina on a wooden base height: 47 cm excluding base; width: 38 cm; depth: 26 cm R120 000 – 160 000 PROVENANCE Strauss & Co, 11 November 2012, lot 212. LITERATURE cf. Fritz-Uwe Günther (1998) Edoardo Villa Museum: Catalogue, Pretoria: University of Pretoria, a similar example made from plaster illustrated on page 10, catalogue number 3. Karel Nel, Elizabeth Burroughs and Amalie von Maltitz (2005) Villa at 90, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 30 and 31. Chris de Klerk and Gerard de Kamper (2012) Villa in Bronze, Pretoria: University of Pretoria Museum, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on page 9. ITEM NOTES The sculpture was created by Villa when he was a prisoner-of-war during WWII in the Zonderwater camp near Pretoria. It was modelled on one of the other prisoners in the camp and later cast as an edition of 6 by the Vignali Artistic Foundry, Pretoria. 376 Cecil Skotnes SOUTH AFRICAN 1926–2009 Sideboard left panel signed by the artist; the Plaut Interior Design logo adhered inside the drawer incised and painted wood panels in wooden sideboard small panels: 11 by 11 cm; long panels: 54 by 11 cm; sideboard height: 85 cm; length: 160 cm; depth: 45 cm R30 000 – 40 000 377 Joy Rose-Innes SOUTH AFRICAN 1939– Standing Nude signed carved wood height: 45 cm; width: 16 cm; depth: 15 cm R20 000 – 30 000 ©The Estate of Cecil Skotnes | DALRO 375 376 377