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Battiss letter to Ronnie Watt

Item date(s): 23.4.81

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Size: 26.5 x 20cm
Technique: Paper
Inscription: Signed by the artist

Category: Found
Type: Letter

ART 1471

Additional notes:
Letter in envelope post marked 24.4.81

Giotto's Hill

92 20th Street

Menlo Park

Pretoria 23.4.81

Dearest [in Fook script] Ronnie

I admire you for not travelling when you don’t with to. Europe too is a bit cold now & the rooigras around Johannesburg in the late afternoon exceeds the beauty of an Impressionist Painting.

I lived in Johannesburg for a few years & it rather well.

You'll enjoy your work as radio reporter.

It ought to be very varied. I hope they pay O.K. for what you'll do.

Braam Kruger & his wife WIMPIE came to see me: they sold NOTHING at their Pietermaritzburg show & yet were very cheerful about it all. Go & see the show at Linda Goodman's. I was there yesterday. Julian, back & depressed from Cape Town, smiled [?] today. Tell me how things go with you.

Good, relax & straighten things out [doodle] then jump for joy for no reason whatsoever. Its called the GRATUITOUS ACT.

So come & see me when you feel right.

[drawings of woman two birds in her breasts]

Easter

it can't happen to you & me.

Big love

F [in Fook script]

Ref: GB/50063







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