Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

578 Robert Griffiths HODGINS SOUTH AFRICAN 1 920-2010 Raconteur: As I said to Winnie at Yalta ... signed, dated 2007 and inscribed with the title and the medium on the reverse oil on canvas 60 by 49cm R350 000–450 000 Hodgins’tongue-in-cheek title refers to the Yalta Conference in 1945 when Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met to discuss the post-war re-organisation of Europe. The nickname, implying a jocular tone and a certain camaraderie between the leaders, belies the underlying tensions and hidden agendas between these leaders at the end of World War II and on the eve of the Cold War. 276