Cat ,1960
Provenance : [Propriété non datée]
- The Dr Matthys Strydom Family collection
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Literature : Strydom, M. (2021). 'Nog Stories Teen My Muur'. Matthys Strydom: George, illustrated in colour on p.133.; Miles, E. (2004). 'Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre'. The Ampersand Foundation, a woodcut of the same subject from which this screenprint is based, is illustrated in colour on p. 106, plate 125.; Harmsen, F. (ed.). (1996). 'Cecil Skotnes'. Cape Town: Published privately, a woodcut of the same subject from which this screenprint is based, is illustrated in black and white on p.84, plate 3.1.
Notes : 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 with the back of a spoon on fine rice paper. 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. [1] (Harmsen 1996)
“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)”.[2] (Miles 2004)
[1] Harmsen, F. (ed.). (1996). Cecil Skotnes. Cape Town: Published privately.
[2] Miles, E. (2004). Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre. Ampersand Foundation.
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