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How much a Jenkins painting is worth varies based on the history, size, condition and other characteristics of the piece. In 2024, Puma Pass - Eye of the Storm by Paul Jenkins set a new record for the artist's work when it sold for more than $168,000 at an auction in Vienna, Austria. Concerned with color and texture, nearness and distance, as well as reality and mysticism, Jenkins’s work is a spiritual meditation on the nature of chance, balance, synchronicity, change and transformation. The American artist is considered to be part of the second wave of Abstract Expressionism. To get an estimated value for a particular Jenkins painting, use the services of a certified appraiser or knowledgeable art dealer. Shop a collection of Paul Jenkins art on 1stDibs.
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original lithograph
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1964 by Mourlot Freres and issued in an edition of 2000 on Arches wove paper. Size: 10 x 7 1/2 inches (255 x 188 mm). Not signed.
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Seeing Voices 6, Abstract Lithograph by Paul Jenkins
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the portfolio "Seeing Voices", a collection that also includes several poems. This abstract piece by Paul Jenkins is signed and numbered on the front of the print i...
Category
1960s Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PHENOMENA GRID THREE
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is inc...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$23,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Paul Jenkins - Composition - Original Lithograph
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jenkins - Composition - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Paul Jenkins, an artist originally associated with abstract expressionism, exhibits in his mature works a redefining of color, light and space on the canvas surface.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923, Jenkins worked as a teenager in a ceramics factory, where he was first exposed to color intensity and the creation of form. From age 14 to 18, he studied drawing and painting at the city's Art Institute.
Initially interested in drama, Jenkins received a fellowship to the Cleveland Playhouse, then continued his dramatic studies in Pittsburgh at the Drama School of the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Deciding to become an artist, Jenkins moved to New York City in 1948 and studied at the Art Students League. During Jenkins's three years at the League, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor were his influential instructors.
While Jenkins continued to live and paint in New York City, his personal explorations took a metaphysical turn, which would ultimately become dominant in his work.
P.D. Ouspensky's The Search of the Miracu/ous changed the artist's thoughts on human growth and limitations, while the Chinese I Ching, through its thematic emphasis on constant change, heightened his interest in flowing paint on canvas. Painting for Jenkins became an intuitive, almost mystical process. He commented, "I paint what God is to me."
In 1953, Jenkins traveled to Paris, where, a year later, he had his first one-man show. While working at the American Artists Center, he continued to experiment with flowing paints, pouring pigment in streams of various thicknesses, with white thin spills as linear overlays.
Jenkins's intent was to deny stasis and create a literal and metaphysical sense of dynamism, while maintaining a sense of unity. Beginning in 1958, Jenkins titled each canvas Phenomena, with additional identifying words. He believed the work to be descriptive of the discovery process inherent in each painting.
Paralleling his beliefs, the artist's paintings have undergone subtle but definite changes. Beginning in the early 1 960s, a shift of color saturation and exposure of the white areas gave Jenkins's canvases an enhanced feeling of illumination.
If Jenkins's technique is unorthodox, he is in many other ways a traditional artist. He works in an acrylic medium on traditional linen canvas or fine rag paper. Often he uses an ivory knife...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Phenomena West Mantle (1968). Acrylic on canvas painting by Paul Jenkins
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Hong Kong, HK
An emblematic example of Paul Jenkins mastery.
It is not by hazard that Phenomena West Mantle was chosen as the cover of the catalogue for the groundbreaking exhibition "Paul Jenkins...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$144,000 Sale Price
28% Off
Paul Jenkins -- Phenomena With Two Black Threads
By Paul Jenkins
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena With Two Black Threads, 1964
Acrylic on paper
Hand signed lower right
Inscribed and dated on the reverse
Painting size 36.4 x 25.3 cm
Frame size 44 x 33.4 x ...
Category
1960s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$8,967 Sale Price
30% Off