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Contemporary Transvaal Art

Item date(s): December 1958

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (featured artist)
Frank McEwen  - (foreword by)


Pages: unpaged (16pp)
Size: 253mm
Binding: Stapled
Language: English


Place publication: Salisbury, Rhodesia
Publisher: Rhodes National Gallery

Additional notes:
An exhibition organised by the South African Association of Arts, Transvaal, in co-operation with the University of Pretoria.

Battiss is represented by three oil paintings:

No. 4. Flames of Africa. 120 gns

No. 5. Abstract. 50gns

No. 6. Abstract. 40gns

His comment: "My aim: to make a synthesis in my art between the visible and the suggestions of eternity hidden in man".

Ref: GB/30182



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