Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 12 October 2015
Important South African and International Art, Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 350 000 - 450 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 397 880
About this Item
South African 1920-2010
Raconteur: As I said to Winnie at Yalta ...
signed, dated 2007 and inscribed with the title and the medium on the reverse
oil on canvas
60 by 49cm excluding frame
Notes
Hodgins’ tongue-in-cheek title refers to the Yalta Conference in 1945 when Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met to discuss the post-war re-organisation of Europe. The nickname, implying a jocular tone and a certain camaraderie between the leaders, belies the underlying tensions and hidden agendas between these leaders at the end of World War II and on the eve of the Cold War.
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