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Album from Hoffer Art Gallery
Including exhibition catalogue and invitation

Item date(s): 26/04-29/05/1980

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (featured artist)
Elbie Kachelhoffer - (album by)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 288mm
Binding: Spiral binding with decorated back cover
Language: English; Afrikaans
Inscription: Met liefde aan Walter van Elbie Kachelhoffer

Sub-type: Exhibition catalogue and invitation

Place publication: Pretoria, RSA
Publisher: Hoffer Art Gallery

Additional notes:
30/02/1980: Photo album with photographs and newspaper clippings showing Walter Battiss with others, including inter alia, Esme Berman, at the opening of an exhibition at the Hoffer Art Gallery.

Hoofstad: 17/4/1980, 25/4/1980, 01/5/1980 x 2, Pretoria News: 29/4/1980. Beeld: 9/5/1980, Rand Daily Mail: 9/5/1980, Unknown: "Fook still lures Battiss"

The exhibition catalogue lists 85 items.

The cover of the invitation has an illustration of a garden scene with watering-can with Battiss's hand appearing on the right holding a sheet of paper with his signature. This image has fraudulently appeared several times for sale as an original.

Ref: GB/30617