A Scarlet Thread
Robert Hodgins
About this Item
South African 1920-2010
A Scarlet Thread
signed, dated 2001/2, inscribed with the artist's name, the title and medium on the reverse
oil on canvas
90 by 120cm excluding frame; 96 by 125,5 by 5cm including frame
Literature
(2016) Off the Wall: An 80th Birthday Celebration with Linda Givon, exhibition catalogue,Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, illustrated in colour on page 96.
Provenance
Clive van den Berg and Rocco de Villiers Collection.
Notes
"In his work, art historical references are woven into and disrupted by the brutal forms of comic-book pop culture … A vast library of cultural knowledge and points of reference is filtered through lived experience …"
Kendell Geers
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