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Robert Hodgins

South African 1920-2010 


London-born Robert Hodgins immigrated to South Africa in 1938 and served in the Union Defence Force during WWII. After the war he studied art and education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before returning to South Africa in 1954 to teach, first at the Pretoria Technical College School of Art, and then for nearly twenty years at the University of the Witwatersrand. He only became a full-time artist in the early 1980s when he was in his sixties. Hodgins mentored generations of artists, many of whom have achieved international recognition.

Prior to his death in 2010, he donated his collection of over 400 original prints from his extensive print-making oeuvre, produced during a lengthy artistic career, to the Wits Art Museum. The exhibition of these works in 2013 was accompanied by the publication of A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive (WAM). The Goodman Gallery retrospective show in 2013, Looking Back, presented a full range of his diverse oeuvre and included pencil drawings, prints, watercolours, tapestries, monoprints, ceramic sculpture, and oil paintings. In 2013, Hodgins’ Three Figures and a Crowd was sold by Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, at the ‘WAM Endowment Auction’ for a record price of R 1 300 000.


Collaborations & Affiliations

766 lots offered      72.06% sold      ZAR 86 870 056
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Robert Hodgins; Of Thee I Sing
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 20 519
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Plotting
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 22 278
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Skullpiece No.5
14 Aug 2023
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
 
Robert Hodgins; Bad Dream
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 8 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Meeting
14 Aug 2023
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Vive la France!
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 8 794
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; M'sieur
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 6 449
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Champ
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 8 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; War Boss
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Golden Girl
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 17 588
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Rome
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 21 105
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Wim. Sikes Esq. of Little Saffron Hill
12 Jun 2023
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
 

Results in green indicate post sales.