LOT 57
Simon Stone b.1952 South Africa
Somebody 2000
R18 000 – 24 000 oil on cardboard signed and dated along the bottom 32 x 24 cm
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NOTES One of South Africa’s most prolific lyrical painters, Simon Stone chooses to work in small format when it comes to his spontaneous ‘gestural improvisations’. For these smaller, impromptu works, Stone first chose to paint on paper, wood or sheets of copper and zinc, but since 2000, he started using cardboard or corrugated card as a surface. This work is part of the first collection of works on cardboard created by Stone. It is a swiftly executed, yet considered, sketch in oil which shows the artist’s concern for the Expressionist idiom of mark-making, textural variety and surface incident.