Eikebos op Laborie et Picardie/Oak-lined Stream with View of Farm Homestead ca.1931 #

The confident, multi-coloured brushwork suggests that Naudé may well have completed this work later than the more blended brushstrokes of 1908:

It is interesting to note the grove of stone seed pines in the background which must have appealed to Naudé’s awareness of his Huguenot roots.⁷⁸ Henri Louw remembered accompanying the artist as he explored the farm, recalling how Naudé remarked that it was the most beautiful valley he had ever seen. The Louw family regularly visited Onrus River from 1897 where they met Naudé, resulting in a close friendship. Naudé frequently visited their wine farm “Laborie et Picardie” and painted a Portrait of the winemaker TJ Louw in the technique learnt during his Munich studies, but with his characteristic focus on the eyes:⁷⁹

Seascape at Kleinmond circa 1931 #

Worcester Landscape circa 1931 #

Karoo 1931 #

Namaqualand Flowers before May 1932 #

Tulbagh 1933 #

Possible sketches for “La Cotte” Wine Cellar 1934:**

“Perspectives 1928” (Carmen Welz) #

Wine Cellar “La Cotte” Farm, Franschhoek 1934 #

Possible study for “La Cotte” Watermill 1934

“La Cotte” watermill 1934 #

Mitchell’s Pass Turneresque Sketchbook 1935 #

Pencil sketch dated 31.5.35 Cogman’s Kloof #

It looks more like a sketch for the painting which artnet dated as 1918:

Kogman’s Kloof, Montagu 1918 #

There is a later painting of this mountain pass at the Studio which does not correspond with this 1935 sketch:

Kogmanskloof #

Interestingly, Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk did a painting of the same scene:

The Road in Cogmanskloof, Montagu 1925 #

Perspective sketch Hex River Valley Keeromberg in background 1935 #

Probably the sketch for A View of the Hex River Valley:

Or a study for the following paintings?

Hex River Valley #

Cape Mountains #

Waterkloof etching #

Or the painting Naudé posed with, on his easel:

Or Hex River, “Ben Heatlie” [Keeromberg] in background

Or the painting on Naudé’s easel in The Studio on 26 June 2019, Hex River, Keerom Mountains

The Hex River, Worcester 1935 #

An almost identical painting is reproduced in black and white in the blue fundraising brochure for the Hugo Naudé Art Centre:

Perspective of the Palmiet River scene in 1935 sketch book 2 #

This is possibly a sketch for Palmietrivier

Or a sketch for Palmiet River with its later, very bold brush strokes

Old Harbour, Hermanus, circa 1935/6 #

Initially I dated this painting according to the same scene on an Old Hermanus Museum postcard dated “circa 1925”:⁸¹

But Attwellthea Marthinus, Curator at the Old Harbour Museum, forwarded my enquiry to Marinda Wilmans, the Collections & Research Assistant, who pointed out the cement gutting tables in the painting which were built during 1935/36 to replace the free-standing wooden tables which were initially used:⁸²

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, using “artistic privilege”, painted this Old Harbour Hermanus still with wooden gutting tables in 1949:

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