Evening Sale
Live Virtual Auction, 12 November 2024
Evening Sale
About this Item
signed, dated 1996, inscribed with the artist's name, the title, 'Begun Feb 27 1996' and 'painted expressly for a black and gilt frame supplied by Mrs Linda Gavon (sic)'
Provenance
Linda Givon Collection.
Literature
Josh Ginsburg and Jason Webb (2016) Off the Wall: An 80th Birthday Celebration with Linda Givon, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum, illustrated in colour on page 64.
(2002) Robert Hodgins, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 85.
Notes
"I had a wonderful Picasso drawing in an original Picasso frame. The client who bought it hated the frame, so I gave it to Robert Hodgins, who painted this portrait, so called, of me, and he insisted that the dress was transparent. Robert had a marvellous song that he sang to me – he used to call me ‘Little Flo’, and the song went like this:
Oh Little Flo,
I love you so,
Even in your nighty.
When the moonlight flits,
Across your tits,
Oh Jesus, Lord Almighty!"
Linda Givon