LIONEL SMIT
LIONEL SMIT, Intermitted Swath #2
Oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Fragmented Reoccurence
Bronze, 73 x 38 x 63 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Restructure
Bronze, 49 x 32 x 28 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Restructure #2
Bronze, 45 x 31 x 25 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Medium Malay Girl
Bronze, 96 x 64 x 66 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Adaptive Application #1
Bronze, 45 x 26 x 20 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Adaptive Application #2
Bronze, 49 x 29 x 20 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Adaptive Application #3
Bronze, 44 x 28 x 20 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Amalgamate
Bronze on Oak, 36 x 48 x 30 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, Broken Maquette
Bronze, 60 x 20 x 20 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Broken Maquette #2, ed of 6
48 x 18 x 18 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, Broken Submerge #2
Bronze, 83 x 35 x 54 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Counterpoise
Bronze, 81 x 35 x 30 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Divert #2
Bronze, 68 x 53 x 32.1 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, Enswathe
Bronze, 192 x 130 x 100 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Expectancy
Oil on linen, 140 x 170 cm
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 Mask (miniature)
Bronze, 23 x 11.5 x 10 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, Monumental Fragments
250 x 143 x 116 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, Mortal Form
Bronze, 62 x 46 x 26 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Profile (Blue)
Charcoal drawing with pastel, 114.5 x 85 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Profile (Orange)
Charcoal drawing with pastel, 114.5 x 85 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Remerge
Bronze, 45 x 31 x 25 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Surge
Bronze, 135 x 70 x 50 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.
LIONEL SMIT, Unforeseen
Bronze, 56 x 45 x 27 cm
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.