Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé. ‘97” lower right, oil on canvas 49.5 x 49.5cm excl. frame; 61.5 x 61.5 x 5.5cm incl.frame. Provenance: acquired from the artist by NC Krone, thence by descent (Strauss & Co. lot 842, 8 November 2020).
There is a typed and handwritten note in English and Afrikaans on the reverse of this painting:
NC “Cope” Krone went on Naudé’s “Grand Tour of Europe” in 1913.72
Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, oil on canvas 50 x 76cm excl.frame, engraved with artist’s name on a plaque adhered to the frame. Notes: It was most likely painted on his first trip to the Victoria Falls in 1897" (Strauss & Co. lot 221, 5 June 2017).
Many Thanks to Carmen Welz for sending these sketches to the author October 2020.
Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, oil on canvas 41 x 61cm/16⅛ x24in. (Bonhams 3 lot 12, 23 March 2011, London). Artnet has title “First Light on the Matopos” and measurements 39.5 x 59.5cm/15.6 x 23.4in.
The Blue Hills of the Matappos, Rhodesia [Matopos, Zimbabwe]
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Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, oil on canvas 46.5 x 77cm/18 5/16 x 30 5/16in. Bears label with title on reverse (Bonhams lot 7, 19 March 2014).
“Early Victoria Falls” (Carmen Welz) possibly during the same trip to Zimbabwe in 1897
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Many Thanks to Carmen Welz for sending this sketch to the author October 2020. The notebook used looks very similar to that with sketches of the Matopos above?
Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower left, oil on canvas 56 x 46cm/22 x 18.1in. excl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 189, 30 June 2014). SAHRIS permit application from Bonhams SA to export artwork to Bonhams London for sale, 16 January 2013 has measurements 68.5 x 56.5cm/26 15/16 x 22¼ in.
No details yet. There is a signed Victoria Falls on panel 28.5 x 39cm. Provenance: Wilbur Smith (Stephan Welz & Co. lot 890, 14 February 2007) but no image available.
This humorous sketch in a similar sketchbook to the above Matopos and Victoria Falls’ sketches is entitled Our Artist negotiating the rapids near Livingstone Island and illustrates trees, palms, a hippo, crocodile, our Artist, playtepus, the sun and to the right Naudé Artist painting under an umbrella smoking a cigar to chase away a cloud of flies surrounding him
Many Thanks to Carmen Welz for sending this photo to the author in October 2020.
Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘97” lower right, oil on canvas 39 x 50.5cm excl.frame; 57 x 69 x 3.5cm incl.frame. Provenance: Mr JP Hugo, La Cotte Franschhoek, thence by descent (Strauss & Co. lot 31, 28 March 2023). Illustrated in Stephan Welz, Art at Auction in SA, p.74 (lot 90, 18 October 1993). Compare with Turneresque Old Jetty, Cape Town/Woodstock Pierof 1907 below.
Naudé must have known that “celebrated characters, eminent navigators and men of science had passed along this same platform”,73
e.g. Charles Darwin in June 1836 and Sir John Herschel 1834-8…
William Burchell’s engraving of The Jutty at Cape Town (1810).
Unsigned oil on canvas 46 x 55cm at the SANG now Iziko Museum, Cape Town (Adèle Naudé, Hugo Naudé, p.42 Fig.25). Their list of holdings gives measurements 48 x 40cm and dates it c1897; acquisition method: purchased, and restored May 1983 (ID: 597).
William Burchell’s excited remarks when he landed here on 26 November 1810. Susan Buchanan, Burchell’s Travels. The Life, Art and Journeys of William John Burchell /1781-1863 (Cape Town: Penguin Random House, 2015), pp.50 & 44.↩︎
