Welgemeend August Art Month - 2019

53 STANLEY PINKER Sweeney among the Nightingales signed and inscribed with the title pastel 121 x 170,5 cm PROVENANCE: Die Kunskamer, Cape Town Caro Wiese Collection This elegant large scale work, is inspired by a T.S. Eliot poem of the same name. In the poem, two ladies try to seduce Sweeney (who is obsessed with wine and women), while drinking in a pub, ignorant of a plot against his life. His life is devoted to hedonistic pleasures and violence. Pinker captures the essence of Sweeney and depicts him in a modern nightclub environment, living it up, oblivious to all threats. FK