Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes, Cat
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Literature : Frieda Harmsen (Ed.), Cecil Skotnes, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1996, page 84, figure 3.1, where a woodcut of the same subject is illustrated:In Pippa Skotnes' monograph on her father's work titled At the Cutting Edge: Cecil Skotnes as Printmaker she talks about the origins of Cat, "The image I remember most clearly from my early childhood...was a large cat, roughly cut in wood and printed by hand...It was apparently a portrait of a friend's one-eyed cat which hunted for its dinner and gave its name to my own, more gentle pet, Kotchka."Elza Miles, Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre, The Ampersand Foundation, 2004, page 106, figure 125, where a woodcut of the same subject is illustrated:There was lively motivation in the Art Centre. Durant Sihlali recalls that a casual drawing of a stalking cat by one of the students inspired Cecil Skotnes' woodcut Cat (1960).
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