Grey Balls, 1966 – A unique contemporary sculpture by renowned artist Michael Stokoe
This piece by Michael Stokoe is one of the contemporary pieces of art within the private collection of Paul Godbold, the founder of Luxurious Magazine.
Framed
Signed and titled on the reverse
Painted wood, with an aluminium surround, on a painted wooden base
12 × 10½ × 1¾ in.
(30.5 × 26.7 × 4.5 cm.),
base 6 × 10½ in. (15.3 × 26.7 cm.)
Provenance: from the estate of the late Lady Tumim (03/06/1936 – 04/11/2009)
This is one of four pieces created in the 1960s by Michael Stokoe, you can view our piece and two available pieces from this unique collection with this link: http://www.lissfineart.com/display.php?KT_artists=Michael+Stokoe
This sculpture is in the private collection of the founder of Luxurious – Paul Godbold
About Michael Stokoe
Best known as a printmaker, Stokoe produced three-dimensional works during a five-year period in the mid-1960s. ‘I was at the time emerging from a more gestural form of painting into experiments with the properties of pure colour, here exploiting gravity, height, perspective and balance’ (Letter to Paul Liss, 6 February 2007).
Like many artists of the period, Michael Stokoe was excited by the new possibilities of perspex as a material, and especially the wide range of exciting colours that could be sourced from Denny’s art suppliers in Hammersmith, West London