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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 2015, Hodgins’ J'accuse was sold by Strauss & Co, Cape Town, at their flagship March auction for a record price of R2 200 000.


Collaborations & Affiliations

793 lots offered      71.75% sold      ZAR 87 203 915
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Robert Hodgins; Artist's Models
30 Jun 2014
Sold for ZAR 409 248
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Diva at Curtain Call
30 Jun 2014
Sold for ZAR 159 152
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Seated Woman
27 Mar 2014
Sold for ZAR 8 500
Robert Hodgins; Night Patrol, New York
17 Mar 2014
Sold for ZAR 10 539
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Old Lady
17 Mar 2014
Sold for ZAR 27 284
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Recruit 187145
17 Mar 2014
Sold for ZAR 36 378
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Medium with ectoplasm
30 Nov 2013
Sold for ZAR 300 000
Robert Hodgins; American Beauty
15 Nov 2013
Sold for ZAR 11 769
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Girl Thinking of her Own Perfection
11 Nov 2013
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
 
Robert Hodgins; Bad News General
11 Nov 2013
Sold for ZAR 363 776
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Business Conference
11 Nov 2013
Sold for ZAR 125 048
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Robert Hodgins; Various Encounters
11 Nov 2013
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
 

Results in green indicate post sales.