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The Johannesburg Centenary Print Portfolio

Item date(s): 1986

Robert Hodgins  - (featured artist)
Giuseppe Cattaneo  - (featured artist)
Karel Nel  - (featured artist)
Malcolm Payne  - (featured artist)
Ezrom Legae  - (featured artist)
Cynthia Kemp  - (edited by)
Malcolm Christian  - (printed by)


Pages: 5 screenprints
Binding: Clamshell/solander box - blue
Technique: Silkscreen
Language: English
Edition: #71/100

Type: Portfolio

Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: Johannesburg Art Gallery
ISBN: 0-909079-29-3

Additional notes:
The portfolio contains five original screenprints, one with collage, in a limited edition of one hundred.

Six sets of hors commerce proofs and ten artist proofs have been produced.

Publication for The Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery is by The Brenthurst Press (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg.

All proofing stages, in close collaboration with the artists, as well s the final editioning, are by Malcolm Christian of The Caversham Press, Lidgetton, Natal on 290 g/m Fabriano /Tiepolo acid-free paper manufactured in Italy.

Solander box, bound in Brillianta Book-cloth and lined with acid-free paper, is by CTP Book Printers (Pty) Ltd, Parrow, Cape.

Reference note:
1. Encounter. Robert Hodgins: screenprinted in ten colours

2. The Gable by Giuseppe Cattaneo: screenprinted in twenty-eight colours.

3. In-tact by Karel Nel: screenprinted in seven colours, with collage.

4. Penumbra by Malcolm Payne: screenprinted in nine colours.

5. Quarter to Twelve to Implosion by Esrom Legae: screenprinted in eight colours.

Ref: SA/2406



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