11th Feb, 2018 15:00
Contents of Deodar House Live Auction
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Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010)
Street Scene
oil on canvas
Artwork date: 2001
Signature details: signed, dated, inscribed with the title and medium on the reverse
Sold for R773,024
Estimated at R600,000 - R800,000
oil on canvas
Artwork date: 2001
Signature details: signed, dated, inscribed with the title and medium on the reverse
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91 x 122 cm
Obert Contemporary, Johannesburg.
Notes:
Robert Hodgins is well known for the ironic wit with which he recorded the foibles of humanity in his work. A prolific painter and keen observer, he peopled his paintings, drawings and prints with a range of uniquely human and generally fallible subjects, realised with sensitivity, a characteristic sense of colour and composition, and his personalised humour. It is widely remarked upon that he became both more prolific and more innovative as he advanced into the final decades of his long life. He saw the painter’s life as a rare opportunity to live creatively and fully, and his devotion to the craft of it is evident in later work, like this painting from 2001, produced in his lastdecade, which also saw him exhibit in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. As with many of his subjects depicting the drama and the banality of human life, this street scene could have been drawn from a television programme, with its staging of a shootout, perhaps between two criminals, perhaps an archetypal ‘cops ’n’ robbers’ scene. Elsewhere the city is rendered by flat, nondescript surfaces and a flash of bright yellow chevron and bright red pigment for the pavement; around the main protagonists the typically Hodgins-esque fugitive or peripheral characters lurk forever at the edge of the frame, getting out of range or looking on from the margins. For an artist who often worked with an urban template, whether of businessmen, political figures or socialites in restaurants and offices, and famously painted boxers as characters in his dramas, this noirish scene of urban street crime is thoroughly and entertainingly representative.
James Sey
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Auction: Contents of Deodar House Live Auction, 11th Feb, 2018
Aspire Art Auctions were delighted to be entrusted with the sale of the contents of Deodar House, a resplendent home with immaculate gardens in the peaceful and leafy Johannesburg suburb of Illovo. Its owners had amassed an eclectic, impeccably curated, and valuable collection of fine art, decorative arts, furniture, jewellery, watches, and wine. The entire contents of the house were brought to auction, with all seller’s proceeds from the sale donated to leukaemia charities.
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