Peter Kinley 1926-1988
Studio Interior - Easel and Table, 1960
oil on canvas
35 x 47 ins
signed lower right

Provenance
Private collection, USA

Exhibited
Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York



Kinley’s work in the 1950’s had, like many of his contemporaries, shown a good deal of influence from Paris, and particularly that of Nicholas de Stael. Of these, it was Kinley who had perhaps best assimilated the palette knife manipulation of heavy slabs of colour, creating simple but powerful images which used the very thickness of the paint to take the painting into the realm of three-dimensional object. This use of the paint as an element in its own right also features in the work of his contemporaries (artists as diverse as William Scott and Roger Hilton), but it was Kinley’s application of this method to less abstracted subject matter which had made it a very commercially successful formula for him.