Robert Hodgins South African/British, 1920-2010
Robert Hodgins (1920–2010) was a British-born South African painter, printmaker, ceramicist, teacher, and satirist. He became an important anti-apartheid artistic voice whose expressive flat, planular, and ludic images of malevolent men and whimsical females broke from a more austere anti-apartheid practice. He is considered one of the most influential South African artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Hodgins was born in London but moved to South Africa in 1938. During the Second World War, he served in South Africa’s Union Defence Force. At the end of the war, he went to study at Goldsmiths in London, but after his studies, he returned to South Africa to teach, first at the Pretoria Technical College School of Art and then at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Robert Hodgins is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. His work is widely deemed to be some of the most visually arresting critiques of apartheid and its social milieu.
Robert Hodgins (1920–2010) was a British-born South African painter, printmaker, ceramicist, teacher, and satirist. He became an important anti-apartheid artistic voice whose expressive flat, planular, and ludic images of malevolent men and whimsical females broke from a more austere anti-apartheid practice. He is considered one of the most influential South African artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Hodgins was born in London but moved to South Africa in 1938. During the Second World War, he served in South Africa’s Union Defence Force. At the end of the war, he went to study at Goldsmiths in London, but after his studies, he returned to South Africa to teach, first at the Pretoria Technical College School of Art and then at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Robert Hodgins is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. His work is widely deemed to be some of the most visually arresting critiques of apartheid and its social milieu.
Robert Hodgins CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
s
2022
Robert Hodgins: +/- 102 ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
2013
Robert Hodgins / Looking Back ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
Emerging Markets Art - Robert Hodgins ,Gallery 27 ,Mayfair, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Lasting Influences ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
2020
ONLINE: Sense of Place ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Cape Town, South Africa
2017
X: Part I ,SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch ,Stellenbosch, South Africa
2016
New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50 ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50 ,Goodman Gallery, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
2014
Capital: Past ,Fried Contemporary ,Pretoria, South Africa
2013
Summer Show 2013 - 2014 ,Rose Korber Art ,Cape Town, South Africa
2012
Summer Show 2012-13 ,Rose Korber Art ,Cape Town, South Africa
Summer Show 2012-13 ,Rose Korber Art ,Cape Town, South Africa
PAINT I: Contemporary South African Painting 2002 - 2012 ,SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch ,Stellenbosch, South Africa
Advance/Notice ,Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ,Johannesburg, South Africa
2011
Imprint: Selected Editions and Works on Paper ,David Krut Projects, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
Three Artists at The Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge ,Boston University Art Gallery ,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2010
Summer Group Exhibition ,Erdmann Contemporary ,Cape Town, South Africa
Divisions: Aspects of South African Art 1948 - 2010 ,SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch ,Stellenbosch, South Africa
Robert Hodgins Record Prices
The 2024 record price
Nymph Surprised, 2007
oil on canvas
Painting: 90 by 90cm
Realized Price
600,730 ZAR
(32,863 USD)
The 2023 record price for Robert Hodgins was for :
Tell Me Pretty Maiden, Are There Many More At Home Like You?, (2003)
oil on canvas
Painting
60,5 by 60,5cm 65,5 by 65,5 by 3,5cm
Realized Price
509,048 ZAR
(27,722 USD)
The 2022 record price
A Green Girl 1998/9
oil on Belgian linen
Painting
122.5 x 92 cm
Realized Price
1,046,960 ZAR
(69,749 USD)
