Lot 148: Karel Nel SOUTH AFRICAN 1955- - Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head

Karel Nel
SOUTH AFRICAN 1955-
Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head
signed with the artist's initials and inscribed with 'Siege ceremonial in forme de tête d'aligator. Site de Papaguyo N. O. du Costa Rica a.p. JC.
1200– 1600. Musée de l'Homme, Paris'.
graphite and Conté chalk on handmade paper
70 by 100cm

LITERATURE:
Rory Doepel (1993). Karel Nel: Transforming Symbols , Johannesburg: Foundation for the Creative Arts, a work from the same series, shown
hanging in the artist’s studio, is illustrated in black and white on page 10.