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Gymnasts in Istanbul

Item date(s): 13.1.68

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


Medium: Paper
Pages: 24pp
Size: 106 x 250mm
Binding: Loose pages
Technique: Pencil on paper
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by both artists


Place publication: Istanbul, Turkey
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Signatures are with the initials.

See also1968.03 in Walter Battiss "I Invented Myself".

1. Acrobats in snowstorm. Istanbul. 13 Jan 68. Signed.

2. Acrobats (with grid). Istanbul. 13.1.68. Signed.

3. Acrobats (three figures. one on head). 13. Jan 68. Signed.

4. Acrobats (three figures, two on head). 13. Jan 68 Signed.

5. Acrobats (three figures. three on head). 13. Jan 68. Signed.

6. Woman on her head. Istanbul. 13.1.68 Signed.

7. Acrobats under a snow tree. Signed.

8. Dancing boy upside down with sun & moon. Istanbul. 13 Jan 68. Signed.

9. Collapsing boy (make very large). Istanbul. 13 Jan 68.

10. Upside down boy. Istanbul. 13 Jan 68.

11. Gymnast. Istanbul. 13.1.68

12. Acrobat & Fruit trees.

13. Acrobat (enlarge).

14. Untitled. (Single acrobat)

15. Untitled. (Two acrobats in cave). Cancelled drawing "Rubbish" on verso.

[Non acrobatic drawings found in the same folder]

16. Sleeping girl holding flower. Signed.

17. Bird and sick person in bed.

18. Evening. Kiewietjie with long legs.

19. Waterfall.

20. Shooting range.

21. Flower lovers.

22. Enlarge and repeat.

23.Orient Bar.

24. Moi. (Strand Restaurant. Taken to by Ali the Crook. Taxi driver from St Georges Hotel tells me it cost him & his family of 3 living out of the city $10's a day to live. But no money coming in. There is nothing but to sit & wait (Fatalism?) 2 taxi trips a day only doesn't pay me).



Ref: GB/30355







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