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PRESENTATION (ASSOCIATION) COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE CARTOONIST D.C.BOONZAIER
First edition printed by Argus Printing Works in 1915 and published by the artist. Only 500 copies were published.
Hardcover with pictorial front board and cloth spine. Book is in excellent condition with square text block, white pages, no inscriptions. Foreword by H.J. Hofmeyr.
"D.C. Boonzaier was a South African cartoonist He was famous for his caricatures of Cape politicians and celebrities at the turn of the century, and later for his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist cartoons for Die Burger. He fathered the artist Gregoire Boonzaier.
"As a cartoonist Boonzaier's fame is founded on his 'My Caricatures' and 'Rand Faces' and on the political cartoons he did for Die Burger." - DSAB I, p. 95.
Boonzaier's caricatures were greatly influenced by Japanese minimalism. He was the father of the famous Cape impressionist Gregoire Boonzaier.
INSCRIPTION READS
PRESENTED TO F.J.BOONZAIER IN RECOLLECTION OF MANY PLEASANT HOURS PASSED WITH HIM AT "FINTONA", WHILE WE DISCUSSED "OLD CAPE TOWN" AND THE LIFE ITS INHABITANTS MUST HAVE LEAD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST CENTURY.
"FINTONA" RONDEBOSCH D.C.BOONZAIER
(THIS IS AN ASSOCIATION COPY WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO THE AUTHOR AND THEREFORE IS HIGHLY COLLECTABLE)
