Cat ,
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- Private collection, Cape Town.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
- Cecil Skotnes
- Cape Town: Published privately
- [2] Miles, E
- Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre
- Ampersand Foundation
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Literature : Miles, E. (2004). Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre. The Ampersand Foundation, where 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, where a woodcut of the same subject from which this screenprint is based, is illustrated in black and white on p.84, plate 3.1.
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