Strauss & co - 2015 Mid-year Review

expectably at least, be continuing. The piece in question centres on a deeply weird creature set in a red space given to the viewer as a stage set. Within this, a monster manqué moves on all fours favouring additional limbs, somehow appended – a figure drawn in Hodgins’bestial iconography as that of the slouching beast, genius loci , of a badly broken space in time. An unusually powerful and haunting work of art the Hodgins beast is surely expected to be one of the highlights of the October auction. Robert Hodgins End Game signed, dated 1994, inscribed with the medium and the title on the reverse oil on canvas 91,5 by 122cm Estimate R500 000 – 700 000 To be sold in Cape Town on Monday 12 October 2015 5