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Sketchbook
L. B. - Leisure Bay

Item date(s): 18/11/71 & 71/1/72

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

Pages: 17pp
Size: 204 x 255mm
Technique: Pencil on paper
Language: English
Edition: Unique

Sub-type: Sketchbook

Place publication: (Pretoria RSA)
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Small sketchbook, numbered on the verso by Battiss to page 6 and thereafter on the recto by the cataloguer. The items to page 6 are marked L.B. below Battiss's signature indicating Leisure Bay.

1. 18/11/71. W.B. Initiates. Zebra People.

2. 18/11/71. W.B. Spirits fucking. Titled in FOOK and English.

3. 18/11/71. W.B. Dancing Initiate. Titled in FOOK and English.

4. 18/11/71. W.B. Demon making magic.

5. 18/11/71. W.B. Leopard. Titled in Fook script.

6. 18/11/71. W.B. Indeterminate Animal. 'Indeterminate' in English and 'Animal' in FOOK.

7. No date. Banal. Cancelled by the artist.

8. No date. Initiate. Titled in Fook script.

9. No date. No title

10. No date. Vermil / Magenta.

11. 17/1/72. W.B. White bird.

12. 17/1/72. W.B. Red flower / white bird.

13. 17/1/72. W.B. Red flower.

14. 17/1/72. W.B. No title.

15. 17/1/72. W.B. No title.

16. 17/1/72. W.B. Wild flower.

17. 17/1/72. W.B. No title.

Ref: GB/30314