Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

755 Robert Griffiths HODGINS SOUTH AFRICAN 1920-2010 Circus: Strongman signed, dated 2006, inscribed with the artist’s name, medium and title on the reverse oil over duco on canvas 90 by 90cm R400 000 – 600 000 EXHIBITED Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Robert Hodgins: Looking Back, 13 April to 11 May 2013 An artist of uncompromising vision and brilliance …His work is not for the faint-hearted for he is certainly an acquired taste, reserved for the few who try to penetrate the surface, who have an innate urge to scratch beneath convention and open their imaginations to the demons of viscerality. Geers, Kendell. (2002) ‘Undiscovered at 82’. In Atkinson, Brenda et al. Robert Hodgins, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers. Page 68. 300