1905 to 1908

Chapter 2, Part 1: 1905 to 1908 #

Paarl 1905 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘05” lower right, oil on wood 40 x 29cm (Roets, p.174 App.A photo III and Retrospective Exhibition cat.no.8). No image.

Cows, Breede River 1905 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘05” lower right, oil on canvas 36 x 51cm (sold 2005).

Seascape 1905 #

“Signed twice and dated ‘05” in red and “Naudé” in black lower right, oil on canvas 43 x 58cm excl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 677, 21 October 2013).

Sandhills, Worcester Mountains Beyond 1905 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé /05” lower left, oil on canvas 20.5 x 30.5cm/8 1/16 x 12in. (Bonhams lot 2, 13 September 2017, London).

Victoria Falls 1905 #

Signed “H Naudé” lower right and annotated “Main Falls” lower left with next line cutoff, oil on canvas 56 x 46cm/22 x 18.1in. (Mutualart 20 March 2013).

Victoria Falls probably from the same time #

Signed “H Naudé” lower left, oil on panel 33 x 24.5cm excl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 558, 16 October 2017).

Kolomo Heights ‘N. Rhodesia’ [now Zimbabwe] 1905 #

Signed with monogram (H.N. encircled) and dated ‘05 lower left, watercolour 16.25 x 31cm. Artist’s name and painting title written in capital letters and underlined with “EXHIBITED CAPE TOWN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS NOV 1905” (Clevedon Salerooms Ltd lot 131, 28 November 2013, United Kingdom. Invaluable. 4 July 2024 Mutualart sale date).

On the Zambezi 1906 #

Signed “Hugo Naudé” and dated lower right, oil on canvas 46 x 61.5cm. Sold 2014 (Johans Borman Fine Art).

Similarly Morning on River Zambezi:

Oil on canvas 40 x 50cm/15.7 x 19.7in. (artnet).

The Winding Road [or Mountain Pass – Invaluable title] 1906 #

Signed “Naudé” lower left, pencil on paper 28 x 20cm/11 x 7.0 in (date given by artnet. sale 23 February 2010).

Badsberg, Slanghoek Mountains 1906 #

Signed and dated lower left, oil on canvas 46 x 61.5cm. Sold 2014 (Johans Borman Fine Art).

Knysna Wood 1906 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé 1906” lower right, oil on canvas 39 x 50cm (Retrospective Exhibition cat no.9).

Landscape with Mountains and River 1906 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé 1906” lower left in black, watercolour on artist’s board 16 x 36cm excl.frame; 32 x 51.5 x 2.5cm incl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 274,15 July 2019, Johannesburg).

Mountain Landscape possibly ca.1905/6 #

Signed lower right, watercolour 9 x 20cm (5^th Avenue Auctioneers lot 135, 2 August 2015, Johannesburg). See also Retrospective Exhibition cat.no.5 Mountain Landscape watercolour 17 x 35cm, signed lower right “Hugo Naudé ‘05”. No image available.

A Cape Cottage – similar to 1905/6 watercolours #

Indistinctly signed; inscribed “Na die dood van my vriendin Mary Brown het haar dogter Julie (vrou van die kunstenaar Hugo Naudé) vir my hierdie skildery as aandenking gegee, M.E.R.” on a label on the reverse. Watercolour 12.5 x 21cm excl.frame; 24.5 x 33.5 x 2cm incl.frame. Provenance: collection of the Estate late Maria Elizabeth Rothmann “Tant Miem” (1875-1975), the celebrated social worker and Afrikaans writer known as M.E.R. (Strauss & Co. lot 115, 29 September 2015). (see Chapter 1)

Landscape, Hex River 1906 #

Dated 1906 in Die Kunskamer cat.no.69 under “Items for sale”. No image or details.

Old Jetty/Woodstock Pier, Cape Town 1907 #

Signed “Naudé” lower left, oil on canvas 60 x 44cm (Roets, p.180 App.B no.33). There’s some confusion about painting details as Roets dates “Ou Jettie, Kaapstad” 1907 signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, 1975 owner was Mrs M. Hugo, Franschhoek, but measurements are different to the Old Jetty, Cape Town of 1897 whose Provenance was Mr JP Hugo, La Cotte, Franschhoek, thence by descent (Strauss & Co. lot 31, 28 March 2023). Maybe there was another painting of the Old Jetty?

Worcester Valley 1907 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé, 1907” lower right, oil on canvas 60 x 45cm (Roets, p.180 App.B no.30): 3 horses graze beside a stream in the vlei vs mountain background, paint applied in small colour spots (op.cit.pp.62-3).

Cape Coastal Scene 1907 #

Signed and dated ‘07 watercolour 16 x 32cm (5^th Avenue Auctioneers lot 253, 16 February 2020, Johannesburg).

Possible sketch for Seascape above or below? #

Initialed “H N” lower right. Many Thanks to Carmen for emailing the image to the author in October 2020.

A Seascape 1908 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘08” lower right, watercolour on card 16 x 33cm/ 6.3 x 13in. excl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 166, 11 June 2012).

Camps Bay 1908 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘08” lower right, oil on canvas 32 x 42cm/12.6 x 16.5in. (Stephan Welz & Co. lot 238, 5 August 2008, Johannesburg).

Transvaal Highveld Spring and/or A Farm in Spring 1908 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘08” lower right, oil on canvas 42 x 63cm excl.frame. Provenance: belonged to General Jan Smuts (Strauss & Co. lot 208, 30 June 2014, Illovo). (see Chapter 1)

Rural Scene possibly Worcester c.1908 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘08” lower right, oil on panel 35 x 26.5cm/13¾ x 10 7/16 in. (Bonhams lot 24, 25 October 2011, London).

Portrait of Emily Hobhouse 1908 showcasing her upliftment projects of spinning and lacemaking #

In Ditsong-Kultuurhistoriese Museum, Pretoria – still no measurement details or better image from them… (see Chapter 1)

Breede River, Worcester Mts beyond 1908 #

Signed and dated “Hugo Naudé ‘08” lower left, oil on canvas 39.5 x 55.5cm excl.frame; 78.5 x 94.5 x 6cm incl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 35, 7 November 2021. Artnet dated it 2008 with measurements 39 x 54,5cm).