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Timed Online Auction, 29 August - 16 September 2025

Day Sale: Modern and Contemporary Art

Current Bid

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Lot 192
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
  • Robert Hodgins; Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight


Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 80 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item

South African 1920-2010
Little Morals: Silent Movie, eight
1990

each signed, dated '90, numbered 39/45 in pencil and embossed with the Caversham Press chopmark in the magin

hand-coloured etching on paper
average image size: 23,5 by 32cm, unframed

Notes

Produced in 1990, Little Morals is a series of eight etchings - each exquisitely hand coloured - which began as a collaboration between Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell and William Kentridge, whilst working together for a short period of time at The Caversham Press in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. The plot [unfolding in the series] 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.

Tracy Murinik

Literature

Anthea Buys (ed) (2012) A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive, Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour from pages 152 to 168 and 268.

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