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DANNY SIMMONS (1953 - ) The Painter.
Digital inkjet print, 2022. 787x914 mm; 31x36 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 4/5 in pencil, lower margin.
Illustrated (the painting): Donna Page. House of the Spirit: The Work and Collection of Danny Simmons, City University of New York, Bayside, NY, 2010, pl. 4, p. 29.
This print reproduces Danny Simmons' painting The Painter, 1997. In her exhibition catalogue essay, Donna Page writes how Simmon's masked figure whose leg is bristling with nails references both the personal trauma of childhood injuries and the nkisi n'kondi power figures of the Konoglese. Page p. 28.
