Stanley Faraday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012) A couple in the bedroom
Provenienza : Provenance A private collection, Australia. During the mid 1960s Pinker painted a number of intimate bedroom and nude compositions, sometimes with the figures smoking cigarettes. A similar work is 'Interior with two people smoking, c.1966'. The artist's description of the painting is also applicable to this composition: 'The picture is just of two people, relaxing in a perfect kind of languid situation.' Bibliography M. Stevenson, Stanley Pinker, (Stevenson, 2004).
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Condition_report : Generally in very good condition. There are a handful of minor chips in the paint around the perimeter of the board. There are two small areas of indentation in the blue paint above the woman's left shoulder, and a small paint chip to the middle of the central rung of the bedstead's headboard. These are visible in the catalogue illustration. Please note: this painting has not been examined out of the frame.
