LIONEL SMIT, Side View of Woman's Face (Orange)
Charcoal drawing with pastel, 114.5 x 85 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Obscura Revision Series #3
Silkscreen on archival paper, hand finished with charcoal and paint, 146 x 112 cm
Best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Lionel Smit presents new bronze busts of female muses in coppery and pale green patinas as well as the torso of a female figure, the fissures in her body evoking cracked earth.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Lionel Smit presents new bronze busts of female muses in coppery and pale green patinas as well as the torso of a female figure, the fissures in her body evoking cracked earth.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Lionel Smit presents new bronze busts of female muses in coppery and pale green patinas as well as the torso of a female figure, the fissures in her body evoking cracked earth.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures, with this new painting Lionel Smit uses his trademark bold, gestural brushstrokes in hues of clay, ochre and blue, to create the serene profile of a woman.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
LIONEL SMIT, Malay Girl Triptych I
Giclee print on archival paper, hand finished by the artist, 118.5 x 93 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Malay Girl Triptych II
Giclee print on archival paper, hand finished by the artist, 118.5 x 93 cm
Best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Lionel Smit presents new bronze busts of female muses in coppery and pale green patinas as well as the torso of a female figure, the fissures in her body evoking cracked earth.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
LIONEL SMIT, Merge #2
Giclee print on archival paper, hand finished by the artist, 61 x 61 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Merge #4
Giclee print on archival paper, hand finished by the artist, 61 x 61 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Merge #5
Giclee print on archival paper, hand finished by the artist, 61 x 61 cm
This monumental mask is also by Lionel Smit. Many of his bronze visages have a stillness and tranquility about them and, with closed eyes and earthy - almost dusty - patinas, are reminiscent of death masks. They continue the artist’s fascination with the uniqueness of the human face and serve as a meditation on the transience of all material things
LIONEL SMIT, Rorschach #4
Giclee print on archival paper, hand finished by the artist, 87 x 61 cm
Acclaimed South African artist, Lionel Smit is best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Now 40, Smit has been sculpting since he was a child, spending his days in and around his sculptor father’s studio.
Smit’s sculptures are often highly textured like this one, entitled Surge, where the hand - and tools - of the artist are clearly evident in the finished bronze.
Smit is both a painter and sculptor and has explored on canvas, paper and here in clay a version of the Janus head but Smit instead creates a double portrait, one face looking skywards and the other looking towards the earth. A simple yet powerful metaphor for life.
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.