Provenance

Linda Givon Collection.

Literature

Josh Ginsburg and Jason Webb (2016) Off the Wall: An 80^th Birthday Celebration with Linda Givon, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum, illustrated in colour on page 64.

(2002) Robert Hodgins, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 85.

Notes

"I had a wonderful Picasso drawing in an original Picasso frame. The client who bought it hated the frame, so I gave it to Robert Hodgins, who painted this portrait, so called, of me, and he insisted that the dress was transparent. Robert had a marvellous song that he sang to me – he used to call me ‘Little Flo’, and the song went like this:

Oh Little Flo,

I love you so,

Even in your nighty.

When the moonlight flits,

Across your tits,

Oh Jesus, Lord Almighty!"

Linda Givon