Peter Kinley (1926-1988) (View BIOGRAPHY)

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Landscape, c.1958 Oil on Canvas Signed lower left recto Inscribed: 139 Notting Hill Gate, W11 This anonymous landscape yields essential clues about Peter Kinley’s artistic sensibilities and preferences. The simplified blocks of thick, palette-knifed paint, keyed to a flat landscape motif with an iconic cluster of likely farm buildings, reveal both the influence of Nicolas de Stael and architectural interests deriving from his Austrian childhood in Vienna and amidst the surrounding rustic environment. Like the Russian de Stael, the Vienna born Kinley became émigré, spending most for his career not in France, but in Britain, which he entered as a 12 year old in 1938. After serving in the British Army during the mid-1940s, Kinley studied at the St. Martins’ School of Art, London, where he would later teach. The London art world’s exposure to the hugely influential work de Stael, courtesy of the French based painters solo shows at Matthiesons’ (1952) and the Whitechapel (1956) led his to being one of the most aped contemporary masters. The sensuous textures wedded to austere designs proved a winning, if seemingly contradictory, combination and Kinley in his pared down, yet evocative blue and ochre landscape, offers a creatively individual variation. Ref: 149/00484 68.5 x 94 cms (26.92 x 36.94 in) P.O.A.

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Pink Wall (c.1980) VIEW Untitled (abstract) (c.1962) VIEW Untitled (seated figure) (c.1962) VIEW Standing Figures with Easel (ii) (c.1961) VIEW Standing Figure with Easel (i) (c.1960) VIEW Landscape (c.1958) VIEW Peter Kinley: Painting & Sculpture (2006) VIEW Submarine II (1986) VIEW Sleeping Figure (1985) VIEW Black Cow (1982) VIEW The Room (1982) VIEW House with Two Gables (1981) VIEW House with Two Gables (1981) VIEW Two Cows (1981) VIEW Two Cows (1980) VIEW Cow (1979) VIEW Golconda (1978) VIEW Study for Acrobat (1978) VIEW Compartment (1976) VIEW Cars (1975) VIEW Study for Interior VII (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Study for Tortoise (1975) VIEW Brown Hill (1975) VIEW Garden (1973) VIEW Fields (1972) VIEW Figure in Room (1969) VIEW Landscape with Clouds (1969) VIEW Study for Trees and Clouds II (1969) VIEW Figure with a wall of Paintings (Green) (1968) VIEW Green Room (1968) VIEW Study for Room with Carpet (1968) VIEW Turning Figure (1968) VIEW Room with Carpet (1968) VIEW The Bed (1967) VIEW Figure in a Green Interior I (1967) VIEW The Bed I (1967) VIEW Standing Figure (1967) VIEW Standing Figure (1963) VIEW Untitled (standing figure with easel) (1962) VIEW Walking Figure (1962) VIEW Standing Figure in Studio Interior (1961) VIEW Figure in a Chair (1960) VIEW Sunset (1960) VIEW Untitled (study for figure with easel) (1960) VIEW Reclining Figure (Black & Pink) (1958) VIEW Landscape (1957) VIEW Landscape (1954) VIEW Figure with Easel (I) VIEW House with Two Hills VIEW Standing Figure VIEW Study for Fire VIEW The Turkey Carpet VIEW Untitled (house, hedge) VIEW Untitled (house, tree hill) VIEW Untitled (house, tree) VIEW