Johannesburg Auction Week

Live Virtual Auction, 16 - 17 May 2022

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 398 300
Lot 245
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals, nine


Lot Estimate
ZAR 90 000 - 120 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 398 300

About this Item

South African 1920-2010
Little Morals, nine

eight signed by Robert Hodgins, one signed by Bell, Hodgins and Kentridge, each dated 90 and numbered 41/45 in pencil the margin

colour etchings
eight plate sizes: 24 by 32,5cm; one plate size: 25 by 30cm; 59,5 by 64 by 2,5cm including frame

Notes

‘Produced in 1990, Little Morals is a series of nine print works – each exquisitely handcoloured – which began as a collaboration between Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell and Willian Kentridge, whilst working together for a short time at Caversham Press in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Hodgins was so captivated by what the storyline and its associations offered him after the joint production of the first print – which was a type of title cover for what became the series – that he continued to develop the plot in a further eight scenes. Drawing on the visually dramatic grammar of old silent movies, which he recalled vividly from childhood, coupled with art historical and theatrical references re-conjured many years after these diversely rich cultural elements were first revealed to him as a very young boy in 1920s and 30s London, Hodgins threads together the development of a story that is as playful a fiction as it is an intimately anecdotal rendering of his earliest cultural roots. The plot is a simple one: a husband suspects his wife of an affair. He discovers them together. He shoots her in a fit of rage and jealousy, and finally presents her lover, who is a boxer, with one of her shoes as cold comfort.’1

  1. Anthea Buys (ed) (2012) A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive, Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, pages 153 and 155.

Literature

Anthea Buys (ed) (2012) A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive, Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, illustrated in colour from pages 152 to 168.

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