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The XIV th Olympiad
Sport in Art Exhibition

Item date(s): 15/7-14/8/1948

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (featured artist)


Pages: 51pp & 48pp
Size: 215mm &245mm
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by Walter Battiss

Sub-type: Exhibition catalogue

Place publication: London
Publisher: Victoria and Albert Museum
Schoonraad Thesis 19 1948 C

Reference note:
1. The catalogue together with a list of awards in the international competition.

2. Illustrations from the Sport in art Exhibition.

Battiss is represented by item 202 [p22]: The Quagga Race (oil painting) and item 241 [p24]:Seaside Sport (coloured woodcut). He won Third Prize (bronze medal with diploma) for "Seaside Sport", p39.

An additional photocopy is included with a letter from the Victoria and Albert Museum to Murray Schoonraad.

Ref: GB/30671



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