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Catalogue of Sale of Work by Two Young Transvaal Artists
W. W. Battiss and John Lawson

Item date(s): 25 March 1929

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


Pages: unpaged (4pp)
Size: 204mm
Binding: Stapled
Language: English

Sub-type: Exhibition catalogue

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: Lezard & Company

Additional notes:
Three copies.

1. marked Private Copy. Inside front cover: To those at HOME who help me in all my troubles and struggles and whom I ask to share my little success. Walter. 19.3.29. (The seven I've marked with a cross are those I did when I spent my last holiday with you).

There are 16 items by Lawson and 16 watercolours, 7 pen and ink drawings and 4 woodcuts by Battiss.

2. signed 'Alfred' on the inside front cover and two small drawings titled Sir Walter and Uncle Walter and signed 'Ross'.

3. pristine copy.

Ref: GB/30842



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