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Painter, Sculptor, b. 1939 - d. 2007

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  • Kevin Atkinson (South African, 1939-2007) Senses, Sensors (unframed)
    Mar. 20, 2025

    Kevin Atkinson (South African, 1939-2007) Senses, Sensors (unframed)

    Est: £3,000 - £5,000

    Kevin Atkinson (South African, 1939-2007) Senses, Sensors bears a Fabian gallery label (verso) oil on canvas 234 x 184cm (92 1/8 x 72 7/16in). (unframed)

    Bonhams
  • Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Untitled
    Nov. 12, 2024

    Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Untitled

    Est: R90,000 - R120,000

    Kevin Atkinson South African 1939-2007 Untitled inscribed with the artist's name, the title and medium on a label adhered on the reverse acrylic on canvas 152,5 by 152,5cm excluding frame; 154 by 154 by 2,5cm including frame

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Untitled No.1
    Jun. 25, 2024

    Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Untitled No.1

    Est: R20,000 - R30,000

    Kevin Atkinson South African 1939-2007 Untitled No.1 signed, dated '67 and numbered 1 on the reverse; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and medium on a label adhered to the reverse acrylic on canvas 122 by 92cm excluding frame; 123 by 93 by 2,5cm including frame

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson (South Africa 1939-2007) Blue Triangle
    Sep. 13, 2023

    Kevin Atkinson (South Africa 1939-2007) Blue Triangle

    Est: R60,000 - R80,000

    acrylic on canvas

    Aspire Art
  • Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Arena
    Jun. 28, 2022

    Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Arena

    Est: R3,000 - R5,000

    signed, dated '77 and numbered 20/40 in pencil in the margin and inscribed with the title in the plate etching on paper image size: 50 by 49cm; sheet size: 75 by 52,5cm, unframed

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Heart Labyrinth
    Sep. 22, 2021

    Kevin Atkinson; South African 1939-2007; Heart Labyrinth

    Est: R15,000 - R20,000

    signed, dated 77, and numbered 38/40; inscribed with the title and date on the reverse etching and embossing 73,5 by 51,5cm excluding frame; 77,5 by 55,5 by 4cm including frame

    Strauss & Co
  • WATER AND LIGHT
    Aug. 04, 2020

    WATER AND LIGHT

    Est: R100,000 - R150,000

    Kevin Atkinson (South African 1939-2007) WATER AND LIGHT acrylic on canvas with marble dust PROVENANCE From the Blaauwklippen Collection. Purchased from João Ferreira Fine Art 176 by 235cm

    Stephan Welz & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson; Waves and Squares
    Oct. 07, 2019

    Kevin Atkinson; Waves and Squares

    Est: R120,000 - R160,000

    Kevin Atkinson South African 1939-2007 Waves and Squares acrylic on canvas 152,5 by 152,5cm

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson SOUTH AFRICAN 1939-2007 - Abstract Composition
    May. 20, 2019

    Kevin Atkinson SOUTH AFRICAN 1939-2007 - Abstract Composition

    Est: R20,000 - R30,000

    Kevin Atkinson SOUTH AFRICAN 1939-2007 Abstract Composition acrylic on canvas 176 by 230,5cm “Atkinson’s skill as a teacher had long been apparent, but it was only in the mid-1970s [when he was appointed at the Michaelis School of Fine Art] that he began to acknowledge the personal creative gratification latent in that area of his professional activity. By his own account, he now ‘became conscious of Teaching as an art form’.” “Kevin Atkinson was a challenging, charismatic and mind-blowing teacher who adopted an entirely unorthodox approach. He challenged everything his students did and said in an effort to develop their own personal vision – rather than concerning himself with what they actually painted – and this focus on process rather than product dominated his oeuvre during the 70s.” Testimony to the brilliance of Kevin Atkinson as an art teacher abounds. He was eminently suitable to be an educator, because not only did he travel extensively in and through the art world, but he also experimented widely in his own art practice, and realised the importance of artist-run initiatives (as opposed to, say, the white cube gallery space approach to selling art). Atkinson studied under Stanley William Hayter in Paris after graduating from Michaelis in 1962 (Breyten Breytenbach had been a classmate). Hayter’s work is characterised by a very lively, linear abstraction, a style that Atkinson related to at the time. The influence of Josef Albers was also important and Atkinson responded to the theories about the interaction of colour that Albers developed during the time he taught at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, in the United States. The most significant single experience, however, was Atkinson’s visit to Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in 1972, where he met Joseph Beuys. Atkinson experimented with a wide variety of styles ranging from abstracted landscapes, to colour field painting, conceptual art, Op Art, Land Art, minimalism, performance art, and photograph as means of artistic expression. Atkinson was involved in numerous artist-run initiatives, including the Cape Town Art Centre (1963); the Artists’ Gallery (1968) (which showed the work of such prominent artists as Claude Bouscharain, May Hillhouse, Erik Laubscher and Stanley Pinker); the Visual Arts Research Centre (1968); the Space Gallery (1972) and the Artists’ Guild (1980). Atkinson’s students at Michaelis included Bruce Arnott; Wayne Barker (Lot x); Marlene Dumas; Tembinkosi Goniwe; Stephen Inggs; Brett Murray (Lot x); Malcolm Payne; Berni Searle; Pippa Skotnes (Lot x); Helmut Starke and Gavin Younge. 1. EsméBerman (1983) Art and Artists of South Africa, Cape Town: AA Balkema, page 51. 2. Lloyd Pollack (2016) The Many Atkinsons: Kevin Atkinson’s Re-opening Plato’s Cave, Artthrob, 3 November 2016.

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson SOUTH AFRICAN 1939-2007 - Pond Surface #2
    May. 20, 2019

    Kevin Atkinson SOUTH AFRICAN 1939-2007 - Pond Surface #2

    Est: R20,000 - R30,000

    Kevin Atkinson SOUTH AFRICAN 1939-2007 Pond Surface #2 signed; inscribed with the title on the stretcher; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and the medium on an Everard Read gallery label adhered to the reverse acrylic on canvas 163,5 by 132cm PROVENANCE: Everard Read, Johannesburg.

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson (b. 1939, South African), large painting
    Nov. 09, 2013

    Kevin Atkinson (b. 1939, South African), large painting

    Est: $600 - $800

    Untitled, oil on canvas (2 panels), 91" x 137" (stretcher), strip frame

    Millea Bros Ltd
  • Kevin ATKINSON South African 1939-2007 Abstract
    Oct. 08, 2012

    Kevin ATKINSON South African 1939-2007 Abstract

    Est: R25,000 - R35,000

    Kevin ATKINSON South African 1939-2007 Abstract signed, dated 1967 and inscribed 'No. 8' on the reverse acrylic on canvas 198 by 183cm

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin ATKINSON South African 1939-2007 Untitled
    Feb. 06, 2012

    Kevin ATKINSON South African 1939-2007 Untitled

    Est: R30,000 - R50,000

    Kevin ATKINSON South African 1939-2007 Untitled oil on canvas 152 by 152cm

    Strauss & Co
  • Kevin Atkinson (South African, b.1939)
    May. 23, 2007

    Kevin Atkinson (South African, b.1939)

    Est: £1,000 - £1,500

    Abstract composition mixed media on three joined panels 244 x 325 cm. (96 x 128 in.)

    Bonhams
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