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Robert Hodgins

South African 1920-2010 


London-born Robert Hodgins immigrated to South Africa in 1938 and served in the Union Defence Force during WWII. After the war, he studied art and education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before returning to South Africa in 1954 to teach, first at the Pretoria Technical College School of Art, and then for nearly twenty years at the University of the Witwatersrand. He only became a full-time artist in the early 1980s when he was in his sixties. Hodgins mentored generations of artists, many of whom have achieved international recognition.

Prior to his death in 2010, he donated his collection of over 400 original prints from his extensive print-making oeuvre, produced during a lengthy artistic career, to the Wits Art Museum. The exhibition of these works in 2013 was accompanied by the publication of A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive (WAM). The Goodman Gallery retrospective show in 2013, Looking Back, presented a full range of his diverse oeuvre and included pencil drawings, prints, watercolours, tapestries, monoprints, ceramic sculpture, and oil paintings. In 2015, Hodgins’ J'accuse was sold by Strauss & Co, Cape Town, at their flagship March auction for a record price of R2 200 000.


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822 lots offered      71.53% sold      ZAR 89 429 013

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Robert Hodgins; In the Office
In the Office
30 Sep 2025
Current bid ZAR 14 000
Robert Hodgins; Despot
Despot
30 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 7 000
Robert Hodgins; Interview
Interview
30 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 8 000
Robert Hodgins; Godfather
Godfather
30 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 15 000
Robert Hodgins; Chairman
Chairman
30 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 7 000
Robert Hodgins; A Little Beauty
A Little Beauty
30 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 6 000
Robert Hodgins; Street Scene
Street Scene
16 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 500 000
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Robert Hodgins; The Red Bow Tie
The Red Bow Tie
16 Sep 2025
Sold for ZAR 234 500
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Robert Hodgins; Lenin in Exile
Lenin in Exile
16 Sep 2025
Sold for ZAR 82 075
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Robert Hodgins; A Duet of Bandmasters II
A Duet of Bandmasters II
16 Sep 2025
Starting at ZAR 40 000
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Robert Hodgins; Nine Characters Hoping for an Artist
Nine Characters Hoping for an Artist
16 Sep 2025
Sold for ZAR 23 450
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Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
16 Sep 2025
Sold for ZAR 99 663
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