Strauss & co - 20 May 2019, Johannesburg

57 112 Noel Hodnett SOUTH AFRICAN/CANADIAN 1949– Grahamstown Bush Shrine signed and dated 89; inscribed with the artist’s name, the date, the title, the medium and ‘Grahamstown South Africa’on the reverse; inscribed with the artist’s name, the title and the medium on a Knysna Fine Art label adhered to the reverse oil on canvas 180 by 200 cm R80 000 – 120 000 Noel Hodnett studied under Brian Bradshaw at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, graduating in 1971. He was a member of the Grahamstown Group from 1969 to 1978. The artist’s distinctive richly descriptive paintings demonstrate his virtuosity as a draughtsman and painter. This powerfully charged work, dating from 1989, forms part of a body of work that includes indigenous animals and Hodnett’s beloved Eastern Cape vegetation. Through his close observation of nature, enigmatic subject matter and rich palette and paint application, Hodnett creates a poetic painterly idiom of the landscape in which he immersed himself so successfully. The artist now resides in Canada.