Picasso

Picasso reimagines Frank Ape as a female figure, wearing a hat and dress, caught in a hush gesture with one finger raised to her lips. It is Sines's most direct homage to art history in this collection, borrowing Picasso's habit of reinventing a single motif again and again rather than referencing any specific painting.

Painted in aerosol and acrylic, the piece sits at the intersection of two lineages: Frank Ape's street-born visual language and a nod to one of the twentieth century's most recognizable painters. The gesture, equal parts playful and guarded, gives the work a personality distinct from the rest of the collection, most of which reads as open and unguarded rather than mysterious.

This is a unique painting on canvas from 2019, one of the more art-historically pointed works here, and a strong choice for a collector who wants Frank Ape's playfulness paired with a direct nod to painting history.