Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 8 November 2021
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 600 000 - 800 000
About this Item
South African 1920-2010
Untitled (Crowd Scene)
signed by Jan Neethling and dated 2 February 2018 on the reverse
oil on canvas
120,5 by 90cm excluding frame; 124,5 by 94,5 by 6,5cm including frame
Notes
A Certificate of Authenticity and Provenance from the Estate Late RG Hodgins accompanies the lot.
The present lot embodies Robert Hodgins's typical semi-abstract style with expressionist overtones. In this image of a group of people, their rounded heads like boulders in a receding landscape, he uses a flattened register, sketchy lines, light washes of paint and translucent colour to create the illusion of mass bodily movement within the image, the abstracted figures jostling in contrasting fields of colour.
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