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Stanley Fereday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012) Into the one ear and out the other 31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in). image 1
Stanley Fereday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012) Into the one ear and out the other 31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in). image 2
Stanley Fereday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012) Into the one ear and out the other 31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in). image 3
Stanley Fereday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012) Into the one ear and out the other 31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in). image 4
Stanley Fereday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012) Into the one ear and out the other 31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in). image 5
Lot 57*,AR

Stanley Fereday Pinker
(South African, 1924-2012)
Into the one ear and out the other 31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in).

4 – 17 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond Street

Sold for £768 inc. premium

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Stanley Fereday Pinker (South African, 1924-2012)

Into the one ear and out the other
bears label 'STANLEY PINKER/ CONSTRUCTION/ Title : INTO THE ONE EAR/ AND OUT THE OTHER' (base)
mixed media
31 x 51 x 39cm (12 3/16 x 20 1/16 x 15 3/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
A private collection.

Literature
Michael Stevenson, Stanley Pinker, (Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, 2004), p. 101. (illustrated).

'A head is buried up to its neck in sand, the face resembling a soccer ball. A plastic funnel in each ear brings us to the saying, 'In one ear and out the other', perhaps referring to the fatuous rhetoric that surrounds sport. Balanced on the head is a small football, found on a beach, a touch of William Tell! In the corner is an assemblage that resembles an Olympic flame, a box of matches beside it. A white pill in the foreground - 'All this brouhaha gives me a headache'. An eye for an eye? A cauliflower for an ear? Is X's sprained ankle a subject worthy of national debate?'.

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