Patrick au Violin

Linda Le Kinff (b. 1949, France.) “Patrick au Violin” (Patrick at The Violin) (2000) is a limited-edition serigraph in color on wove paper, framed, hand signed in ink in the lower left and numbered 89/350 in the lower right. The art measures 37.5 x 10 inches, and framed, it is 39.25 x 11.5 inches. This image is shown on page 139 of the book, "Linda LeKinff: The Graphic Work," published by Park West Gallery in 2008 and identified as PWG 211. Published by Park West Gallery, Southfield, MI.

Music is one of Linda Le Kinff’s favorite themes. This image depicts musicians playing various string instruments. They are positioned in loose diagonals and there is a piano in a cubist angle in the lower left. The six people are jumbled together in a tight thin space with the bows of the stringed instruments echoing the mentioned diagonals. The whites of the players’ faces and on the keyboard contrast with the black of the piano itself, the clothing, and the pops of bright reddish colors.

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. She lived and worked in Italy for twelve years learning ancient techniques" 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, as well as learning the modern techniques or acrylic and airbrushing. 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 abstraction movement. She returned to school in south Tyrol where she became interested in painted, polished and varnished woodwork, using a special material made of casein. She applied it to her painting but still kept the classic expression on canvas.

In 1998, Le Kinff was selected as the Official World Cup Artist and exhibited in the cities where the matches took place, Montpellier, Saint-Denis, Nantes, Marseilles, Toulouse, and Lyon. Her medallion was exhibited at the Monnaie de Paris, where French Nemaic has been minted since the 15th century, and the Euro since 1999.

Linda was honored to be the official artist of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, featuring her work on posters, prints, tickets, racing programs, and officially licensed products for the 136th Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.

Thanks to Park West Gallery for the bio information!