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Screenprint · Paper
Strauss & Co · Sep 21, 2026ZAR 4,451 ≈ $274 ≈ £204 ≈ €238Sign up free to see price
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Magic Sticks
Walter Battiss (South African, 1906–1982)
ZAR 14,070 price realized incl. premium
≈ $1,118≈ £827≈ €940
Hammer ZAR 12,000 · with buyer’s premium ZAR 14,070
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- Medium
- Screenprint · Prints & multiples all screenprint results →As published: “silkscreen”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Screenprints
- Dimensions
- image size: 42 by 61,5cm; 69,5 by 86,5 by 4,5cm including frame
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- South African and International Art, Decorative Arts (97)
- Date
- May 7, 2018
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 174
- Estimate
- ZAR 12,000 – ZAR 16,000 (≈ $954 – $1,272) (≈ £705 – £941) (≈ €801 – €1,069)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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