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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.


Collaborations & Affiliations

807 lots offered      71.62% sold      ZAR 88 926 597
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Robert Hodgins; Circus: Strongman
21 Oct 2013
Sold for ZAR 625 240
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Will the Fat Lady Please Stop Singing
21 Oct 2013
Sold for ZAR 56 840
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Au Clair de la Lune
21 Oct 2013
Sold for ZAR 68 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Mais, Messiers (sic) - I Have Only Two Slippers
21 Oct 2013
Sold for ZAR 90 944
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Three Figures and a crowd
30 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 1 300 000
Robert Hodgins; Man Considers his Fate
20 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 62 524
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Golden Girl
20 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 11 710
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; A Gentleman of the Cloth
20 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 31 831
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Boy with Ornate Sleeves
20 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 204 624
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Girl on a Bright Cushion
20 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 170 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Nude with Blue Eyes
20 May 2013
Sold for ZAR 159 152
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; At The Drawing Board
4 Feb 2013
Sold for ZAR 200 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT