Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Live Auction, 20 May 2019
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 79 660
About this Item
South African/Canadian 1949-
Grahamstown Bush Shrine
signed and dated 89; inscribed with the artist's name, the date, the title, the medium and 'Grahamstown South Africa' on the reverse; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium on a Knysna Fine Art label adhered to the reverse
oil on canvas
180 by 200cm excluding frame
Notes
Noel Hodnett studied under Brian Bradshaw at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, graduating in 1971. He was a member of the Grahamstown Group from 1969 to 1978. The artist’s distinctive richly descriptive paintings demonstrate his virtuosity as a draughtsman and painter. This powerfully charged work, dating from 1989, forms part of a body of work that includes indigenous animals and Hodnett’s beloved Eastern Cape vegetation.
Through his close observation of nature, enigmatic subject matter and rich palette and paint application, Hodnett creates a poetic painterly idiom of the landscape in which he immersed himself so successfully. The artist now resides in Canada.
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