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Keith Purser
Dungeness, Oil on Board, Horizontal Coastal Landscape Beach Painting, 2020

2020

$12,376.40
£9,000
€10,595.14
CA$16,947.44
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CHF 9,862.82
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NOK 125,578.62
SEK 118,561.10
DKK 79,064.43
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Dungeness, Oil on Board Painting by Keith Purser B. 1944, 2020 Additional information: Medium: Oil and sand on board Dimensions: 43 x 164 cm 16 7/8 x 64 5/8 in Signed, titled and dated Keith Purser lives and works on the edge of the desert-like environment of Europe's largest shingle bank, in the shadow of Dungeness power station and within sight of the coast of France. Born in Bromley, Kent, he attended Sidcup School of Art in the 1960s. As an artist, he balances two very different approaches to landscape painting: one essentially abstract, the other figurative. As an abstract painter, Purser deconstructs the sea and shore into harmonies of colour, texture and form. These works are as much about painting itself as they are about the shifting weather and changing moods of the coast. As a figurative painter, Purser creates homages to English vernacular art. These paintings of the down-at-heel, resorts and gently rusting harbour towns of the South Coast capture the peculiar charm of these places. These two strands in Purser's work are always meeting, albeit quietly and incidentally. The vernacular often steals into the most abstract of works by way of found objects picked off the beach, whilst a Modernist formal sensibility orders the seafront houses into a harmonious arrangement of blocks of colour.
  • Creator:
    Keith Purser (1944, British)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 16.875 in (42.87 cm)Width: 64.625 in (164.15 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Kingsclere, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2718214195842

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