Lincoln Townley | Study for Banker Collection | Two Figures | 2025

Lincoln Townley (b. 1971)
Study for Banker Collection — Two Figures
Pencil on paper | 2025 | Original

The most compositionally complex of the 2025 Banker studies, Study for Banker Collection (Two Figures) presents something that the finished paintings rarely show: the Banker in the company of another figure, in a specific architectural space. A skeletal figure stands in full anatomical detail to the left; a second, more gestural form occupies the right, both in proximity to a striped chair and the crisp vertical line of a room's corner. The setting is precise — this is an interior, a defined space, a room with walls and a floor.

Townley is working here through questions of relationship and environment that the single-figure Skull Banker works hold in suspension. What does the Banker do when he is not alone? What is the space he inhabits? The skeleton — stripped of the suit, of the professional costume, of everything that the Banker has accumulated — stands in counterpoint to the clothed figure, the two together constituting the argument that the entire Banker series has always been making.

Inscribed "Study for Banker Collection 2025," signed with the full Townley signature and the LT monogram. Collected by Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, and Robbie Williams. Available exclusively through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Original pencil on paper
2025
Hand-signed by the artist
LT monogram
Inscribed: "Study for Banker Collection 2025"
Framed
Certificate of Authenticity