Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

211 519 Robert Hodgins SOUTH AFRICAN 1920-2010 Gun Slinger signed, dated ‘04 and numbered 12/15 in pencil in the margin and embossed with The Artist’s Press chop mark hand coloured photogravure print image size: 27 by 20,5cm; sheet size: 49 by 38cm R  –   LITERATURE Anthea Buys (ed.) (2012) A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive , Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum. Another example from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 66 and 275. 520 Robert Hodgins SOUTH AFRICAN 1920-2010 Pretty Boy Floyd signed with the artist’s initials and dated 80 mixed media on paper 66 by 47cm R  –   “In 1980 Robert and Jan mounted the fourth of their two-man exhibitions, this time at the Market Theatre Gallery. Their printmaking experiments centred on a series of one-off screenprints using as subject matter one very notorious 1930s Depression era [Chicago gangster, John Dillinger, better known as] Pretty Boy Floyd. They found a newspaper photo of this villain and used his image over the Easter weekend of that year, as basis for numerous explorations of visual possibilities. The Pretty Boy Floyd exhibition subtly referenced the controversial 1964 Andy Warhol exhibition, Thirteen Most Wanted Men momentarily installed on the façade of the State Pavilion at the World’s fair in New York. In some tangential way, Hodgins and Neethling also ‘valorize the villain’by the forthright gaze of their Pretty Boy Floyd portraits.” Nathaniel. (2006) Jan Neethling and Robert Hodgins: Young Men in Garage Trousers , [Online], Available: http:// nathanielstern.com/blog/2006/07/04/jan-neethling-and- robert-hodgins-young-men-in-garage-trousers/ [30 January 2018]. 519 520