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Pieter Hugo Naudé (South African, 1869-1941) Namaqualand (framed) image 1
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Lot 34*

Pieter Hugo Naudé
(South African, 1869-1941)
Namaqualand (framed)

22 March 2023, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £18,000

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Pieter Hugo Naudé (South African, 1869-1941)

Namaqualand
signed 'Naudé' (lower right); bares 'Maskew Miller Art Gallery, Cape Town' label (verso)
oil on board
25 x 36cm (9 13/16 x 14 3/16in).
(framed)

Footnotes

Provenance
A private collection, South Africa.

Hailing from Worcester, South Africa, Pieter Hugo Naudé grew up surrounded by the natural beauty of the countryside. Passionate and invested in the environment, the artists surroundings would then begin to be reflected in his work contrasting his formal European training in dark portraiture, typical of the early 20th century.

'Naudé is a true impressionist in that he follows Nature in her moods, he submits himself humbly to them.'

Comparatively, Naudé's work had clearly evolved to vivacious, dynamic works performed with swift brushstrokes such as the present lot, which emphasise an evocation of the natural landscape, rather than its literal realist appearance. The present work is therefore a prime example of the artist's active avoidance of a meticulously intellectual process in favour of a philosophy of following his first instinctive reaction when painting.

Bibliography
A. C. Bouman, Painters of South Africa, (Cape Town: De Bussy, 1949), p. 41.

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