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Appraised for $13,500 ___________________
Original Art by Artist Linda Le Kinff
\"Maitre et Eleve\" 1995
A unique opportunity to purchase an originalacrylic and mixed mediapainting onboard by the artist Linda LeKinff.
This is bold and vibrant creation by Linda LeKinff, featuring elements of her beloved masters, personal experience and highly original vision.
- Includes: Certificate of Authenticity
- Appraised in 2020 for $13,500. by Park West Gallery (attached)
- Originallypurchased at Park West Gallery in Southfield,Michigan
- Registration No. 72672
- Le Kinff, Linda
- 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 (40f)
- Oil painting on wood. Framed, Signed in pigment lower left, Titled, Signed, and annotated \"Paris\" verso
- A unique work.
- From the collection of the artist.
- Vibrant colors and energy
- Perfect condition
31 7/8\" x 39 3/8\" documented dimensions on Certificate of Authenticity
LID: 140715
ABOUT THE ARTIST...
Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilianparents (to which she attributes her exotic Imagination).She started hercareer as a painter at the age of 20.
She lived and worked in Italy for twelve years learning theancient technique of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught bymasters in Florence and Livorno.She also served an apprenticeship in woodengraving, copper engraving, and excelled in learning the modern techniques ofacrylic and airbrush painting.
In Paris, 1975, she learned lithography, meeting the artists,Brayer, Corneille, and Lapique.In 1976 she met Okamoto Taro, the JapanesePicasso, who introduced her to the sand and sumi technique.
In 1981 she spent six months in Morocco where she worked withChabia, the poetess of the native abstraction movement.She returned toschool in south Tyrol where she became interested in painted, polished andvarnished woodwork, using a special material made of casein.She appliedit to her paintings and continues to use this technique today but still keepsthe traditional approach of painting in acrylic on canvas, as well.
Her influences include the hidden sensuality of Braque, themasterful drawing of Matisse, and the elegance of Modigliani and the precociousmaturity of Egon Schiele who died at the age of twenty-eight.
In 1998, LeKinff was selected as the official World Cupartist.For that distinction, she created a painting that was minted intoa commemorative coin by the French Government, an honor never before offered toa living French artist.
In 2002 LeKinff participated in the Exposition of Prestigeorganized by the Ambassador of France in Japan and her work was exhibited inmuseums and art foundations in Japanese cities including: Tokyo-BunkamuraMuseum; Nagoya-Tenjin Salaria Art Foundation; Osaka-Kirin Foundation;Fukuoka-Loft Gallery; Yokohama-Redbrick-Warehouse.
Le Kinff has taken her place among contemporary artists whosework frees us from the mundane reality of everyday life, not with elaboratefantasy but with a sure-handed rendering of beauty and elegance in line withher personal view on painting, which is \"Everything is teaching a lessonof modesty.\"
