Strauss & co - 15 February 2020, Cape Town

77  LIONEL SMIT SOUTH AFRICAN 1982– Rorschach Divided #2 signed and dated 2013; inscribed with the title on the stretcher and further inscribed with the details on an Everard Read label adhered to the reverse oil on canvas 130 by 170cm R200 000 – 300 000 PROVENANCE Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg. Private Collection. EXHIBITED Everard Read, Johannesburg, Lionel Smit: Accumulation , 4 to 27 July 2013. Illustrated in an exhibition view on page 27 of the catalogue. “Faces confront us every day in our everyday life: most pass us by, some become marked in our memories through conversations or engagements or repetition [...] Lionel Smit’s works offer us an entry point into the variety and richness that lies beneath every face we encounter, whether in life, in bronze or in paint. Just as we gaze up at the stars and see seemingly similar points of light, in fact, each one represents a world, a galaxy or a cluster of possibility, so far away but also tantalisingly within reach.” 1 1. Andrew Lamprecht (2013) ‘Little Stars, Big Stars: Recent Work by Lionel Smit’ in Lionel Smit: Accumulation , Johannesburg: Everard Read. Page 2 and 3. 93