Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

333 Christo Coetzee SOUTH AFRICAN 1929-2000 Homage to Morphology Autre of Michel Tapié de Céleyran, Paris, 1958 signed and inscribed ‘80-69, Tulbagh, Cape, SA and Structure 1’ in pencil in the margin mixed media on paper 51 by 64cm R18 000 - 24 000 PROVENANCE Acquired from the artist by the current owner, circa 1983. ‘Christo Coetzee was a South African assemblage and Neo-Baroque artist closely associated with the avant-garde art movements of Europe and Japan during the 1950s and 1960s. Under the influence of art theorist Michel Tapié, art dealer Rodolphe Stadler and art collector and photographer Anthony Denney, as well as the Gutai group of Japan, he developed his oeuvre alongside those of artists strongly influenced by Tapié’s Un Art Autre (1952), such as Georges Mathieu, Alfred Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies and Lucio Fontana.’ 1 1.  University of Pretoria , Christo Coetzee Collection, https://repository.up.ac.za/ handle/2263/53627. 334 Paul du Toit SOUTH AFRICAN 1922-1986 Landscape signed oil on canvas laid down on board 32,5 by 81cm R60 000 - 80 000 PROVENANCE Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, Jack and Helen Kahn Collection , 13 February 2007, lot 42. Private Collection. 124