Walter Whall Battiss
(1906-1982) - (featured artist)
Medium: Printed on brown paper Size: 203mm Language: English
Sub-type: Exhibition catalogue and invitation
Place publication: Durban Publisher: Walsh Marais Gallery
Additional notes: There are 24 items listed ranging in price from R25 to R50.
1. The Forest
2. The Sea
3. Medley
4. Umpundulu Bird
5. Rain
6. Man and Bird.
7. Compassionate Bird
8. Sea Forms
9. Xenophon
10. My Hand - Pen drawing
11. Madala
12. Cat and Bird
13. Rare Fish No 1400
14. Initiation
15. Summer
16. Marine
17. Swimmer in Lightening
18. Sappho
19. Spinning forms
20. Bucolic
21. Witchdoctor
22. Birds
23. Under the Sea
24. Girl
Most of the works on this exhibition are wood engravings done on South African boxwood from Alexandria in the Cape and Port St Johns. These are on the grain of the wood and the whole process of polishing the surface of the block of engraving and of handprinting the proofs without the use of a press has been done by the artist. Every proof is different making it in effect an artist's original
Some of the works are woodcuts combined with woodengraving done on Yellow Wood recognisable by the broader knifecuts.
There is one pen drawing.
The wood engravings are the first that Walter Battiss has executed for twenty seven years and we are pleased to be the first gallery in the country to show them.