Linda Le Kinff
Woman with Cat
c.1990

Name: Woman with Cat
Brand: Linda Le Kinff
Price: 1250 USD
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About the Item

This artwork "Woman with Cat" c.1990 is an original color serigraph by noted French artist Linda Le Kinff, born 1949. It is hand signed and numbered 122/200 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 20.75 x 29.25 inches, framed size is 31.75 x 40.25 inches. Custom Framed in a black frame, with yellow matting.. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has minor scratches, barely visible. About the artist. Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilian parents. She started her career as a painter at the age of 20. In the 1970`s she traveled to India, Tibet, Mexico and Italy. Le Kinff lived and worked in Italy for twelve years learning the ancient techniques of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught by masters in Florence and Livorno. She also served an apprenticeship in wood engraving, copper engraving, and excelled in learning the modern techniques of acrylic and airbrush painting. In Paris in 1975 she learned lithography, meeting the artists, Brayer, Corneille and Lapique. In 1976 she met Okamoto Taro, the Japanese Picasso, who introduced her to the sand and sumi technique. In 1981 she spent six months in Morocco where she worked with Chabia, the poetess of the naive abstraction movement. special material made of casein. She began to create serigraphs in the mid 1980`s and uses this technique exclusively in the creation of her original graphic works. She also creates hand- embellished versions of her serigraphs on canvas and wood, and spends. Shef also expresses herself through watercolors or, more precisely, a mixing of greasy pastels, ink and watercolor. In 1998, Linda Le Kinff was selected as the Official World Cup Artist and exhibited in the cities where the matches took place: Montpellier, Saint-Denis, Nantes, Marseille, Toulouse, and Lyon. She created a painting that was minted into a commemorative coin by the French Government, an honor never before offered to a living French artist. The medallion was exhibited at the prestigious museum, the Monnaie de Paris. In 2002, Le Kinff participated in the “Exposition of Prestige,” organized by the Ambassador of France in Japan, and her work was exhibited in museums and art foundations in Japanese cities, including the Tokyo-Bunkamura Museum, the Nagoya-Tenjin Salaria Art Foundation, the Osaka-Kirin Foundation, the Fukuoka-Loft Gallery, and the Yokohama-RedBrick-Warehouse.

Creator:

Linda Le Kinff (1949, French)

Creation Year:

c.1990

Dimensions:

Height: 31.75 in (80.65 cm)Width: 40.25 in (102.24 cm)Depth: 0.85 in (2.16 cm)

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

Late 20th Century