Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

687 Robert Gwelo GOODMAN SOUTH AFRICAN 1871-1939 Full of Flushed Heat - Tulbagh executed in 1912 signed oil on canvas 62 by 75,5cm R250 000 – 350 000 EXHIBITED Autumn Exhibition, Huddersfield, 12 September 1914 LITERATURE Newton Thompson, Joyce. (circa 1951) Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London. Pages 33 and 130, illustrated between pages 4 and 5. before urban expansion. In addition to revealing how these places appeared in a bygone era, Goodman’s painterly treatment evokes the unique qualities of each location. His canvases primed with Van Dyck brown, in the academic tradition, provide strength and stability, while their surface vitality derives from the broken brushstrokes inspired by Impressionist and Divisionist painters. Successfully employed in the vivid Tulbagh landscape, these multiple brush marks capture and refract light with shimmering effect and contribute to the atmosphere of intense heat. By contrast, the verdant forest and cool tones of Table Mountain are rendered with a subtlety that underscores the tranquillity of the scene at daybreak. 1. Cohen, Evelyn. 1988. ‘Early Training and French Vision in South African Art Prior to 1920’. In Alexander, Lucy; Bedford, Emma and Cohen, Evelyn. Paris and South African Artists 1850-1965, Cape Town: South African National Gallery. Page 15. 243