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CHRISTO COETZE
Born in 1929 in Johannesburg and died 2001 in Tulbagh, Cape

Studied 1947- 50 University of the Witwatersrand, gaining a BA (Fine Arts); 1951-52 on a postgraduate study bursary at the Slade School of Art, thereafter studied on an Italian Goverment Travelling Scholarship in Italy and from 1959 - 60 on a Japanese Goverment travelling scholarship at the Unversity of Kyoto, Japan.

He participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1949 in South Africa and in the U.K., in France, Japan, the U.S.A., Belgium, Canada Australia, Spain and The Netherlands.

His international solo exhibitions include:
1955 - Hanover Gallery, London
1959 - Minimani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1960 - Takahimaya Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1960 - Schwetzoff Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1961 - Gallery Stadler, Paris, France
1961 - Galeria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1963 - Gallery Stadler, Paris, France
1963 - Galerie Aujourd'hui, Brussels, Belgium
1974 - Galeria Arrabal, Callossa, Spain
1985 - Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

His last local exhibition was the Retrospective Exhibition 1947–99 at the Sasol Museum, University of Stellenbosch

Signed copies of the book by Muller Ballot on Coetzee's life and work are available at the gallery.

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Sun 2, 1981
Mixed media on paper
46 x 62cm

Untitled, 1980
oil on paper
40 x 60 cm
prototype for the painting on fire curtain,
State Theatre
 

SOLD 'Theory of sets', 1989,
Mixed media on paper




SOLD 'Pink head', 1989, Mixed media/collage on paper

 


 


Untitled
48 x 36.6cm

Untitled
48x 39.2cm