Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)
Über das Lot Chargen- 571
Tane Tahiti, Two ,circa 1978
Medien: carved and painted wood with fabric
Größe : height: 19,5cm and 17,5cm
Unterschrift: signed and inscribed with the title and a dedication for John and for Marie on the underside of each base
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Einzelheiten
Herkunft : [Propriété non datée]
- A gift from the artist to the current owner's grandmother Marie Rautenbach, University of Pretoria librarian from 1973-1980
Literature : cf. Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation. A similar example illustrated on page 201.
Anmerkung : In a letter to Dacre Punt from Moorea, Tahiti, in September 1978, Battiss uses the word TANE to describe the men, boys, males he encounters there.1 In the dictionary, the word Tane [Tah-ney], refers to a Polynesian god of fertility.
1. Ibid, page 200.
