Walter Battiss - Fook Island Postage Stamps, two

Walter Battiss
South African 1906-1982
Fook Island Postage Stamps, two

each signed

(1) numbered 235/350

(2) numbered 180/250
photolithograph on perforated paper
(1) sheet size: 26 by 22cm, unframed; (2) sheet size: 25,5 by 24cm, unframed

Notes

These stamps are a reproduction of an original watercolour by the artist Alpha Batt 115 (Self Portrait) produced in 1975. A lithographic reproduction was produced for the Fook exhibition at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, September 1975.

Literature

Warren Siebrits (2016) Walter Battiss: I Invented Myself: The Jack M Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, page 158, cat. no. 1975.71 S8.