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Basutoland & Transkei
1954

Item date(s): Summer 1954

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

Pages: 122pp
Size: 265 x 320mm
Collation: See Additional Notes
Binding: Cardboard covers with punch holes for string.
Language: English
Edition: Unique

Sub-type: Sketchbook

Place publication: Pretoria, RSA
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Apart from the title in indistinct pencil cursive, the artist has signed at bottom right and "Bass Andries Coetsee. Kortmens". On the back cover: "Please keep these for me till 3pm when I meet Mr Juberg (?). [signed] Walter Battiss. The book has been numbered by the artist on the recto pages; the verso pages are blank except for page 107 which is also numbered. Pages 118-122 are blank. On the front inside cover: A sketch-book is an artist's capital (in a Bank) on which you continue to draw interest. Walter Battiss. The Art Centre 287 Skinner Street, Pretoria. Summer 1954. Clouds cruising above; Below thirsty rocks; drinking the white milk of the sea (composed in a dream 21.3.48. Most of the pages show landscapes and people with some text. The first date on page 2: 31.12.53. Then p11: 1.1.1954; p33: 2.7.54; p45: 2.1.54; p47: 2.1.54; p52: 3.1.54; p54: 3.1.54; p66-68: 4 Jan 54; p75: 5.1.54; p114: 7.1.54.

Ref: GB/30276