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Documentation on The XIVth Olympiad, London 1948.
Sport in Art Exhibition

Item date(s): 1948

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (letters to and from)

Pages: various
Size: various
Edition: Unique

Place publication: London
Publisher: (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Additional notes:
The South African participation to the Sport in Art Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum was organised by the South African Association of Arts (SAAA).

Various letters between Battiss and The Organising Committee for the Olympiad and SAAA.

Newspaper clippings on this subject. A letter from John Rothenstein (Director of the Tate Gallery, London)

The Bulletin of the SAAA dated August 1948.

Peter Malgo's South African Art Newsletter dated July 1948.

An entrance ticket priced 5 shillings.

See also GB/30671 for the exhibition catalogues

Ref: GB/30294