Homestead, Triptych ,1960
Provenienza : Private collection, Johannesburg.
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Note : Homestead is an exceptional large-scale example of Cecil Skotnes’ unique, strongly graphic carved and incised wood panels – a medium for which he is today well-known and widely-celebrated.
Early in his career, Skotnes focused on painting but in the mid-1950s he started experimenting with wood cuts. The artist had seen a series of woodcuts by a German artist, Rudolph Scharpf, who used to exhibit at Egon Guenther’s gallery in Johannesburg. Skotnes was intrigued by Scharpf’s black and white woodcuts and, in an interview with art historian Neville Dubow, recalled that he
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