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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:Mrs Thomas Leisure Bay - Ear listens to morning, midday, afternoon and evening sea
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Walter Battiss South African, 1906-1982
Mrs Thomas Leisure Bay - Ear listens to morning, midday, afternoon and evening seawatercolours on paper21 x 27 cm eachall signed and inscribed with titlesFurther images
This small whimsical quadriptych was painted in Walter Battiss’ winter retreat in Leisure Bay, on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. Battiss is one of South Africa’s most revered twentieth-century artists, and...
This small whimsical quadriptych was painted in Walter Battiss’ winter retreat in
Leisure Bay, on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast.Battiss is one of South Africa’s most
revered twentieth-century artists, and this work from the latter part of his career
is a poetic meditation on passing time, and the associated sensory shifts of sound,
sense, colour and light.
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