WWF Art Auction

Live Auction, 17 September 2013

Evening Sale

Sold for

ZAR 220 000
Lot 17
  • Neil Rodger; Young Woman with Yokohama Cockerel II


Lot Estimate
ZAR 150 000 - 170 000
Selling Price
ZAR 220 000

About this Item

South African 1941-2013
Young Woman with Yokohama Cockerel II

signed and dated '13; signed, dated 2013 and inscribed with the title on the stretcher

oil on canvas
90,5 by 90,5cm excluding frame

Notes

Neil Rodger was born in 1941 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He now lives and works in the Eastern Cape, where he thrives on the austerity and solitude of the region. It seems that this environment is conducive to the enigmatic silence so characteristic of his finest work.

“A beautiful girl holding a chicken, these are certainly strange companions in a painting. I painted the first version of this subject many years ago. I was surprised at the extraordinary reaction collectors had to this image. Since then the girl and cockerel have become, I suspect, synonymous with my work.”

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