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South African Paint Pot

Item date(s): n.d.

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Pages: 43pp + 22 plates
Size: 255mm
Binding: Stapled
Inscription: Signed by the author.
Edition: #329/500


Place publication: Pretoria, RSA
Publisher: The Red Fawn Press
Battiss bibliography 04

Additional notes:
Comprising: The Art of: 1. The Yellow Man; 2. The Black Man; 3. The White Man. Stapled. Dust wrapper partly missing. Sotheby's 20/10/03 #75/76.

Frontispiece (Plate No. 1) signed by the author.

Plate No. 11B is a Hasselblad photograph by Battiss; one of Twelve Hasselblad photographs, Item 1754 in Art database.

"The first part of this book is a sequence to my first book, "The Amazing Bushman."

"The copyright of reproductions is reserved by the artists, but the work of the author, which includes most of the photographs, may be used if acknowledgment is made."

A partially complete list of books by Walter Battiss appears on page 220 of Battiss edited by Karin Skawran & Michael Macnamara, Ad Donker, 1985.

Another copy inscribed: In loving memory of the sweet days of youth that never pass.

To Little Mama & Dad on Christmas day, 1941. Your boy, Walter.

With three newspaper clippings pasted in.

Ref: SA/0471







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