Andre Naudé Archive

The lithographs on this page were published by The Artists' Press and have been archived. For purchase enquiries please contact us.

Andre Naudé was a painter, educator, printmaker, collaborator, judged art competitions and curated exhibitions from the 1970s until his death in 2023. He concerned himself first and foremost with the process of painting. He was a colourist and focused on the human condition as well as his immediate environment. He often used the traditional tablescape as his main vehicle of comment.

To quote Lucia Burger: “above all Andre Naudé is a flirt. He cannot resist the seduction of forms and textures. Colour is for him the essence of the diversity, richness and the very soul of the life of objects, nature and humanity. In his paintings, he handles the issues relating to culture with a panache that would make politicians blush. He refers to certain symbols and icons in a language which is unique and exclusively his own. He uses paint on any surface with the assurance and dexterity of a magician and allows colours to compliment each other, blend and oppose with the confidence of an accomplished lover.”

Prof Keith Dietrich (Department of Fine Arts at the University of Stellenbosch) states: "Irony is one of the crucial dimensions of his work, and in particular his sense of dark humour, crouched in a luscious though fragile veneer of paint that enchants and lures the viewer."

The alarming and absurd social conditions that he experienced in his home city of Tshwane are transformed into an ambiguous interplay between survival, optimism and hope. For Naudé, his images expressed his ambivalent relationship with South Africa in its extreme splendour, hope and optimism on the one hand, and its extreme sense of absurdity, banality and despair on the other.

In the series of prints that the Andre Naudé did at The Artists’ Press his apparent playfulness that masks more serious issues are evident. The poignancy of his subject matter is hidden behind the artist’s masterful control of colour and line. Naudé’s fine sense of humour is apparent in the titles of his work that hint at the world that he inhabited.

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Monotypes 2017

Title: Template I
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Template II
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Template III
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Template IV
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Confrontation
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Profile I
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Profile II
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Du Wah Girls I
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Du Wah Girls II
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Du Wah Girls III
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Case Studies I
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Case Studies II
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Case Studies III
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Title: Case Studies IV
Medium: Monotype
Edition number: 1/1
Paper size: 66 x 51 cm
Image size: 59.5 x 44.5 cm

Lithographs

"The head as an object, human female body and shoe as the object, talk about a contemporary elevation of low technology production to acquiring a suspiciously elevated neo-aesthetic. These prints could refer to both the specific and the non-specific in terms of image and context. One could refer to prototypes/stereotypes, contrasted by the viscerally sensuous indulgence of traditional mark making. Images suggest a latent kinetic implication, implying stillness, activity; still life and the living." Andre Naudé.

Title: Girl Talk
Medium: Seven colour lithograph
Paper size: 50 x 66 cm
Image size: 40 x 55 cm
Edition size: 30

Title: Aging South Coast Siren
Medium: Six colour lithograph
Paper size: 66 x 50 cm
Image size: 52x 32 cm
Edition size: 30

Title: Head Rest I
Medium: Four colour lithograph
Paper size: 48.5 x 38 cm
Image size: 31 x 24 cm
Edition size: 15

Title: Head Rest II
Medium: Four colour lithograph
Paper size: 48.5 x 38 cm
Image size: 31 x 24 cm
Edition size: 15

Title: Head Rest III
Medium: Four colour lithograph
Paper size: 48.5 x 38 cm
Image size: 31 x 24 cm
Edition size: 15

Title: Head Rest IV
Medium: Four colour lithograph
Paper size: 48.5 x 38 cm
Image size: 31 x 24 cm
Edition size: 15

Title: Lamentation
Medium: Seven colour lithograph
Paper size: 38 x 51 cm
Image size: 24 x 36 cm
Edition size: 40

"The work is rooted in still life, as a vehicle of contemplation of indigenous/locally found objects. Several of the elements were appropriated by the artist from the Bag Factory’s studios’ (interior). This includes wooden logs from Joachim Schonfeldt’s blue gum tree sculpture, a hospital trolley and waste bins displaying the words NO HOT ASH. The artist has juxtaposed these with elements from his paintings at the time. Men's cologne vessels (en-titled HAVANA,) smoke from a so-called Cuban cigar. Contemporary urban every day is married and underpinned to suggest a neo-capitalist adoration." Andre Naudé