Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

686 Robert Gwelo GOODMAN SOUTH AFRICAN 1871-1939 Dawn on Table Mountain executed in 1916 signed oil on canvas 69,5 by 95,5cm R300 000 – 400 000 EXHIBITED Royal Institute Galleries, 195 Piccadilly, London, 6 to 28 June, 1924 242 The presence of these two impressive paintings by Robert Gwelo Goodman on one sale provides the rare opportunity of seeing some of the artist’s finest works and assessing how his French training and exposure to the international art world impacted on the development of his style. In 1895 he studied at Paris’s famed Académie Julian where Henri Matisse was a fellow pupil. Following success in London when three landscape paintings were accepted at The Royal Academy in 1898 and a painting tour of India in 1903/4, he re-settled in South Africa in 1911. The influence of the French Realists encouraged his interest in familiar topographical environments and what art historian, Evelyn Cohen, called an“honest portrayal of the major features of a specific scene”. 1 The paintings provide uncommon insights into the historical development of Tulbagh and Cape Town, LITERATURE Newton Thompson, Joyce. (circa 1951) Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Page 135, illustrated between pages 68 and 69. Newton Thompson, Joyce. ‘Gwelo Goodman (1871-1939)’, Our Art, Pretoria: The Journal Lantern in Collaboration with SA Broadcasting Corporation. Illustrated on page 63, figure III.