Consulter la cote et le prix de Tane Tahiti, Two par Walter Whall Battiss

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Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)
À propos du lot n° 571
Tane Tahiti, Two ,circa 1978
Medium: carved and painted wood with fabric
Dimensions : height: 19,5cm and 17,5cm
Signature: signed and inscribed with the title and a dedication for John and for Marie on the underside of each base

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Provenance : [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.
Notes : 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.

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