Born in South-West Africa (now Namibia), <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/stanley-pinker">Stanley Pinker</a> spent 1947 to 1950 at the Continental School of Art in Cape Town studying under <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/maurice-van-essche">Maurice van Essche</a>, who himself had studied under <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/henri-emile-benoit-matisse">Henry Matisse</a