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The Early Art of South Africa

Item date(s): n.d.

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (featured artist)


Pages: 12 plates
Size: 295mm


Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: Privately printed
Previous reference SA/2012
Battiss bibliography Too late

Additional notes:
A portfolio of twelve San rock paintings or rock engravings copied by Walter Battiss reproduced by lithographically. [originally bound together at the top; three items still joined]. Housed in a (damaged) folder.

This item appears to be unique, no other copy ever having been seen. Not in the bibliography of Walter Battiss: "I Invented Myself" as it was discovered after the publication of that book.

With a short essay pasted onto the inner back cover.

Elephants on the Move

Prehistoric Hunters

Eland in Repose

Charging Rhino

Rady for the Kill

Two Rare Figures

Fishing Scene

Pair of Ostriches

Three Bantu Waarriors

Kameeldoring

The Pursuit

Wilderbeest

Ref: GB/31025



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