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Three Centuries of South African Art
Drie Eeue van Suid-Afrikaanse Kuns

Item date(s): 1953

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


Pages: 39pp, 38pp
Size: 215mm
Binding: Dos-à-dos; Stapled
Language: English; Afrikaans


Place publication: Cape Town, RSA
Publisher: The Government of the Union of South Africa

Additional notes:
Two copies, a pristine copy and Battiss's copy.

This was Battiss's copy - Please return to Walter Battiss.

The booklet has an English and an Afrikaans cover and the text meets in the middle with an inserted sheet: Addenda and Corrigenda. His copy has been destroyed by many clipped items from various pages. However, because of its bilingual, most of the items have survived. For example, although the English text for Walter Battiss has been clipped, the Afrikaans version survives. The full text is available in the pristine copy.

Organised for the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition, Bulawayo, 1953 with the assistance of The Southern African Association of Arts; The South African National Gallery, Cape Town and The City of Johannesburg Art Gallery.

There are four items listed:

2. The Eternal Palace. Canvas. Lent by Johannesburg Art Gallery

3. African Magic. Lent by artist.

4. Swimmers with Water Dripping from their Chins. Lent by artist.



Ref: GB/30229







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