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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 338

Paul Jenkins "Cardinal Prison" Lithograph

Estimate: $300 - $600
Starting Bid
$150

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Signed, numbered, and dated in lower left corner. 

Date: 1981

Limited Edition: 30/94

Provenance: C. G. Rein Galleries sticker on verso, lower right corner.

 

Image: 38" Tall x 27" Wide 

Frame: 48" Tall x 37" Wide 

 

Condition: The print is in very good condition. There is a large scratch to the upper left corner of the glass. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) was born in Kansas City and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York before moving to Paris in 1953, dividing his life between the two cities from then on. Working alongside the Abstract Expressionists, he developed in the late 1950s a method all his own: pouring thinned paint onto primed canvas and guiding it across the surface by tilting the canvas and steering the flow with an ivory knife.

The results, veils of luminous, overlapping color with crisp edges where the pigment pools and stops, became his signature, and from about 1960 he titled nearly every work "Phenomena" followed by a descriptive phrase. His paintings, and his own hands at work, appear in Paul Mazursky's 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman." Jenkins carried the same transparent, flowing color into lithography, producing large color prints that translate the light of his poured paintings to paper. "Cardinal Prison" is one of those lithographs, signed, numbered and dated 1981.

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