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Ballot Box
Metaphors

Item date(s): 1978

Judith Mason


Pages: unpaged
Size: 284mm
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist
Edition: #7/30


Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: The Goodman Gallery

Additional notes:
Colophon: "A portfolio of ten original lithographs printed by Bruce Attwood and published by the Goodman Gallery."

Eleven framed panels, the first being the colophon and the others the lithographs. The lithographs are titled "Metaphor 1" to "Metaphor 10". The eleven framed panels are housed in a blue-grey wooden box painted on the front with the front view of the head and shoulders of a man and on the back with the back view of the man. The top of the box is titled "Ballot Box" and is painted with a slot for ballot papers to which 3D padlock is fixed.

The titles are:

1. Valley of the kings

2. Maternal breast

3. Water into wine at sunset

4. Cornucopia

5. Mirror

6. Landscape for a dead tortoise

7. Moon garden

8. Iago's heart

9. Birdcage

10. Fig.

See: Stephan Welz & Co. 0 8/5/2000. Lot 351.

See: Stephan Welz & Co. 24/4/2012. Lot 381. R7000-R10000.

Ref: GB/10242











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