Important South African Art & Furniture, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 21 October 2013
Paintings Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 600 000USD 22 843 - 34 265
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 625 240
About this Item
South African 1920-2010
Circus: Strongman
signed, dated 2006, inscribed with the artist's name, medium and title on the reverse
oil over duco on canvas
90 by 90cm excluding frame
Notes
An artist of uncompromising vision and brilliance ... His work is not for the faint-hearted for he is certainly an acquired taste, reserved for the few who try to penetrate the surface, who have an innate urge to scratch beneath convention and open their imaginations to the demons of viscerality.
Geers, Kendell. (2002) 'Undiscovered at 82'. In Atkinson, Brenda et al. Robert Hodgins, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers. Page 68.
Exhibited
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Robert Hodgins: Looking Back, 13 April to 11 May 2013