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Auction result
Falling Man
Bill (William John) Davis (South African, 1933–2021)
ZAR 1,682 price realized incl. premium
≈ $97≈ £72≈ €83
Hammer ZAR 1,400 · with buyer’s premium ZAR 1,682
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- Medium
- Woodcut / linocut · Prints & multiples all woodcut / linocut results →As published: “woodcut on paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Woodcuts
- Dimensions
- image size: 43 by 22,5cm; sheet size: 49 by 43cm; 60 by 44 by 3,5cm including frame
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- Embodied (467)
- Date
- September 30, 2025
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 80
- Estimate
- ZAR 1,500 – ZAR 2,000 (≈ $87 – $116) (≈ £65 – £86) (≈ €74 – €99)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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