Lot 112: Noel Hodnett SOUTH AFRICAN/CANADIAN 1949- - Grahamstown Bush Shrine

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 200cm

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.

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