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Sundry Essays and Poems

Item date(s): Various

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (essay by)

Pages: various
Size: various
Edition: Unique

Place publication: (Pretoria RSA)
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
1. The Mystery of Life. / Flames of Africa. 1 page. 380 x 274mm

2. Lament of an Artist. 15 Jul 1960. 3 pages. 380 x 274mm

3. Limpopo. 2 pages. Written in landscape format. 274 x 380mm

4. Undoing buttons & zips. 1page. 295 x 210mm. Written on the back of a letter from Mark Rathbone dated 77 Jan 14.

5. Trip with Terence McCaw. 2 pages. 280 x 190mm.

6. Pretoria. 2 pages. A4. 280 x 190mm.

7. Loneliness and Humour. 1 page. 280 x 190mm.. With drawing on back of folded page.

8. The Lost Paradise. 2 pages. A4.

9. Stuck in a Rhodesian Drift. / The Tyranny of Beauty. 2 pages. 280 x 190mm.

10. Art in South Africa. 1 page. 330 x 210mm.

11. A Great Monolith. 1 page. 280 x 190mm.

12. Incomplete essay. pp7, 7a, 9-13, 16.

13. Rock Paintings of the North Western Transvaal. 5pp. 330 x 205mm.

14. Incident with the Bushmen. Kalahari. 1960. 1pp. 330 x 205mm.

15. Question and Answers. A and B. p3-4. missing pages 1 and 2.

16. Constant Search for Food. 4pp. 330 x 205mm.

17. Plato. 4pp. 175 x 126mm.

18. African Art. 9pp. 330 x 205mm.

19. First Sketch Book of Southern Arabia. 8pp. 330 x 205mm.

20. Short Essay. Su, 23, Canadian chick. 1p. 296 x 200mm. Transcribed by jmg.

21. Hieronymus Adam. 2pp. 330 x 195mm. Transcribed by jmg.

22. Reflections on the Documenta and Kessel. 17 July 1972. 3pp. 255 x 205mm. Plus an essay by Penelope Marcus. 28 Feb 1972 on which Battiss has written: 15.7.72. Met Buys this morning at Documenta. He remembered me from Dusseldorf. His bespectacled little son was with him with a typewriter.

23. A Lesson for the Lion. 2pp. 296 x 210mm. Transcribed by jmg. Written on Red Fawn Press stationery.

24. Samiel Spoerri and other reminiscences. 15pp numbered with grey cover. 200 x 127mm.

25. Nest building. 5pp. 10 Nov 1945. 257 x 205mm plus 9pp of notes and sketches.

26. Red terra-cotta pot. July 1964. 7pp. 250 x 130mm (cursive). Transcribed by Battiss.

27. The Art of super-laziness and super-untidiness. 1p. 325 x 205mm.

28. Leisure Bay. Monday 27.9.71. 1pp with 14pp attached but unknown whether related. 330 x 205mm.

29. My name is Lilly. 28.6.66. 10pp with blue TED cover. 205 x 155mm.

30. All the World's a Stage. 6pp numbered and 4pp additional in Academic Exercise Book. 27/8/23. 225 x 175mm.

31. The Magenta Horse. 15pp plus title page. 255 x 200mm. Written on Red Fawn Press stationery.

32. The Glory of the Drought. 1 October 1949. 1p. 280 x 188.

33. The Meat Shop. 9 Feb 1963. 2pp. 330 x 205mm.

34. The Legend. 17.5.60. 3pp. 280 x 190mm.

Reference note:
The listed items should eventually be catalogued separately.

Some may be copies made by Battiss and others are authored by Battiss

Ref: GB/30202