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The composition reflects the international modernist language of bold geometry and flat colour fields, and exemplifies the period’s important cross-disciplinary practice in which an artist’s graphic design is translated into a woven medium by specialist ateliers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"1399\"\u003eThe tapestry is woven in wool and retains its Portalegre workshop label with recorded dimensions and edition\/registration details, together with the artist’s name as noted on the label. Condition is consistent with display and age; colours remain strong and the weave appears structurally sound. 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It forms part of the portfolio \u003cem data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eIn Memory Charles Eglinton\u003c\/em\u003e and reflects Skotnes’ sustained engagement with carved form, mask imagery, and sculptural line translated into printmaking. The composition demonstrates the artist’s characteristic synthesis of figural abstraction and African-derived visual language, articulated through bold contouring and structured planes of colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted by Egon Guenther at the Egon Guenther Gallery Studio, Johannesburg, the impression is an Artist’s Proof (IV\/XV) from a private edition of 75, with 15 proofs. Executed as a woodcut on Zerkall Bütten paper, the sheet bears the artist’s signature and date (1975), together with blind embossing. The paper and printing are consistent with Guenther’s studio production of the period. 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Skotnes was a key figure in modern South African art and an influential teacher associated with the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print is executed as a multi-block colour woodcut on \u003cstrong data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1105\"\u003eZerkall Bütten paper\u003c\/strong\u003e, a fine mould-made printmaking paper widely used for studio editions. This example is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1221\"\u003eArtist’s Proof (IV\/XV)\u003c\/strong\u003e from the edition of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1284\"\u003e75 impressions plus 15 artist’s proofs\u003c\/strong\u003e. The work is signed and dated \u003cstrong data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1334\"\u003e“C. Skotnes 75”\u003c\/strong\u003e in pencil and was printed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1381\"\u003eEgon Guenther\u003c\/strong\u003e at the Egon Guenther Gallery Studio in Johannesburg. 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