1913: East Africa & Egypt | Pieter Hugo Naudé

1913: East Africa & Egypt

Paintings during and after the 1913 overseas trip #

It is uncertain when exactly Naudé painted these. Many were quite large and would have been cumbersome to travel with. Where are the sketchbooks from this trip? According to his travel companion, N.C. Krone, in an interview on 21 July 1973, Naudé already began to paint in Beira and Zanzibar, held exhibitions in London, and sold some of his paintings.⁷⁵

Beira Harbour (Mozambique) #

Signed “H.N.” lower right, oil on board 20 x 17cm (Roets, p.74 & p.181 App.B no.40).

Dar-es-Salaam Harbour (Tanzania) #

Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, oil on canvas 35 x 55,5cm/13.8 x 21.9in. (sale 11 November 2002).

Old Harbour, Zanzibar #

Signed “H.Naudé” lower right, oil on canvas 40 x 54.5cm (Strauss & Co. lot 560, 16 March 2015, Cape Town).

Was Naudé influenced by Van Gogh’s The sea at Saintes-aries?

Claude Monet also used orange reflection in the water to evoke movement in Impression Sunrise (1872).

Image from the Internet.

“ZANZIBAR'' #

Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right margin and inscribed with the title lower left margin, Etching 12 x 19.5cm excl.frame; 31,5 x 36 x 2,5cm incl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 142, 8 June 2019. Dated 1913 by Roets, p.182 App.B no.64). Etching number 5/30 was sold by Stephan Welz & Co. lot 185, 30 March 2004, Johannesburg.

There is a similar drawing of this harbour scene, with many boats without sails, entitled Zanzibar. 29 March

In the Retrospective Exhibition catalogue, top of the second page.

Douws, Zanzibar #

Signed “H.N.” lower right, oil on canvas 21.5 x 15cm (Strauss & Co. lot 559,16 November 2015, Cape Town).

Street/Market scene, Zanzibar #

Signed “Naudé” lower right. No further details yet.

Zanzibar [similar scene to above] #

Signed “Hugo Naudé.” lower right margin, title lower left margin, etching image size: 17.5 x 12cm, sheet size: 24 x 21cm; 48.5 x 43 x 4cm incl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 32, 27 March 2023).

Street in Zanzibar #

Unsigned oil on canvas 50 x 40cm (Adèle Naudé, p.43 Fig.27).

Fruit Stall, Zanzibar #

Signed “H.N.” lower right, ‘Zanzibar’ inscribed on the reverse, oil on panel 34 x 23.5cm excl.frame; 51 x 40.5 x 4.5cm incl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 202, 21 September 2022).

A Street View, Zanzibar #

Signed “H.Naudé” lower right, oil on panel 29 x 20cm/11.4 x 7.9in. Sale 31 May 2011 (artnet).

Zanzibar street scene #

Unsigned etching 25 x 17.5cm17 x 12cm given by Adèle Naudé to “Wollie” Naudé. This etching illustrated in Berman, p.133 with measurements 17 x 12cm.

Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya) #

Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, oil on canvas 30 x 45.5cm excl.frame (Strauss & Co. lot 323,13 November 2017, Illovo). Slightly different measurements given by Stephan Welz & Co. lot 627 and Bonhams lot 305, 26 October 2011, London.

Egypt #

Many Thanks to Carmen Welz for this photo in October 2020.

In the East

Signed “H Naudé” above title lower right, pencil drawing 22 x 13.3cm amongst “Wollie” Naudé’s documents from Adèle Naudé.

Street scene #

Unsigned, untitled pen drawing 15.4cm x 17cm given to “Wollie” Naudé by Adèle Naudé. Pencil sketch of the Cape Dutch farmhouse in trees on verso.

Studies in the East #

Signed “Hugo Naudé” lower right, title to the left, pencil drawing 16 x 22.5cm amongst “Wollie” Naudé’s documents given by Adèle Naudé.

Homestead Stairs at Dusk #

Signed “Naudé” lower right oil on canvas board 24.5 x 29.5cm/9.6 x 11.6in. (artnet lot 345, 15 October 2018).

Roets, p.74↩︎