ORIGINAL STANLEY PINKER PAINTING OF CEDERBERG

STANLEY PINKER South African 1924-2012

CEDERBERG, GOUACHE ON PAPER,

SIGNED IN PENCIL

35.5 x 19.5cm

Born in South West Africa, now Namibia, Stanley Pinker studied art under Maurice van Essche in Cape Town. Van Essche himself studied under Matisse, sketching an artistic lineage that connects Pinker directly to the vocabulary of European modernism, communicated with such assurance in his paintings.

Pinker spent many years in Europe after his studies, absorbing the varied cultural stimuli it offered. Despite a brief visit to Cape Town in 1954 to hold his first exhibition, it was only in 1964 that he returned permanently to South Africa. Here the artist discovered an abiding sense of identification with the country, which he initially channelled into landscape painting. He soon began populating his landscapes, however, in an attempt to explore the socio-political complexities of his surroundings. Known for his incisive and allusive wit, Pinker would also continue to develop the distinctive spatial qualities for which his work is known.