Paul Jenkins

American (1923 - 2012)

Paul Jenkins was an American painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Paul Jenkins's estimated art value is C$20,000 (*)

Paul Jenkins's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$5,000 - C$50,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an acrylic painting work attributed to Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) was C$34,250 - paid for "Phenomena Kanemitsu Kite" at Heffel in Vancouver on Wed, Dec 2, 2020.
ArtValue.ca has 12 auction art sale records for their acrylic painting results, with prices in the range of C$5,000 to C$50,000.

Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes

Paul Jenkins had an epiphany one day after producing a painting without forethought - that through his process of discovery, he was simply acting as a medium. Out of chaos, which he equated with the natural, came glimpses of order - paint coalescing into an independent presence, producing a phenomenon he saw as the result of chance, not of will. Central to the creation of Jenkins’s work was the subconscious; submerging himself in his process, he would surface with an image from the depths of his psyche. Since 1960, Jenkins titled all his works Phenomena, followed by poetic allusions created by his reaction to the image and the effect of colours in relation to each other. This way of titling preserved the works as unaccounted-for visual phenomena - experiences visible only through the collision of chance, method and material. Jenkins’s works from the late 1970s demonstrate a mastery of technique, as he pours delicate veils of colour that gently meld while retaining their integrity and light. In this painting from 1978, a red flame rises from the base amidst blooming pastel hues, invoking the warmth and beauty of a crackling hearth.

(*) Value is calculated as an average of the top acrylic painting sale records from ArtValue.ca database.
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