Stik

£1,500-£2,200 VALUE (EST.)

$2,750-$4,050 VALUE (EST.)

$2,500-$3,700 VALUE (EST.)

¥12,500-¥19,000 VALUE (EST.)

€1,700-€2,500 VALUE (EST.)

$14,500-$21,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥240,000-¥360,000 VALUE (EST.)

$1,850-$2,700 VALUE (EST.)

25% AAGR

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Meaning & Analysis

Hip (red), depicting a stickman standing and staring, was released in 2013.

Read more about Stik Prints & Editions

Hip is an offset lithograph printed in red, white and black, depicting a stickman looking to the side and resting a hand on his side. The print was crafted in collaboration with The Big Issue Japan, and based upon a detail from an eighteenth century print by Utagawa Hiroshige. This followed his collaboration with The Big Issue UK, entitled The Big Issue.

The six-line figure that is Stik's hallmark often elicits an atmosphere of tension and strain: the square body and absence of a neck suggest elevated shoulders, squeezing the upper body against extended limbs.

Hip is another careful study of a person just standing and staring, and it demonstrates Stik's exceptional ability to capture the nuanced features of standing bodies in his minimalist six-line figures. In this piece, Stik expresses his intention to "condense" the characteristics of the body into his minimalist compositions.