Lot 207
Patricia Kimball Painting "Beach Scene" (2009)
Patricia Kimball Painting "Beach Scene" (2009)
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Patricia Kimball (American, XX-XXI century). "Beach Scene" oil on canvas, 2009. Signed at lower right and titled and dated on verso. A serene yet quietly compelling painting, Beach Scene captures a moment of repose along the shoreline, where two figures recline on brightly striped towels before the vast sweep of sea and sky. Patricia Kimball, who describes her work as contemporary realist and "a lover of stripes," composed this commissioned painting with the skyline, surf, and sand arranged in horizontal bands - or stripes - that echo the design of the towels below the figures. The composition is stripped to its essentials: sand, surf, and human presence distilled into clear planes of color and subtle shifts of light. The figures, one seated upright and the other reclining, are rendered with an economy of gesture that emphasizes stillness and contemplation rather than narrative detail. Size of painting: 24" W x 20" H (61 cm x 50.8 cm); of frame: 26" W x 22" H (66 cm x 55.9 cm)
Kimball's work often arises from a search for simplicity and clarity, informed by her plein-air practice and her study of both minimalism and luminous 19th century landscape traditions. Here, her restrained palette - soft tans, cool blues, and sparing accents of red and yellow - creates a harmony that reflects her meditative approach while remaining firmly rooted in observed reality.
Trained at the University of Utah, where she earned both her B.A. and M.F.A., Kimball has exhibited widely across the American West, including multiple solo exhibitions at Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City. Her paintings often speak to the beauty of ordinary experience, seen with fresh eyes and conveyed with painterly precision. Beach Scene exemplifies Kimball's ability to elevate the everyday into something timeless, offering a quiet meditation on presence, perception, and the subtle power of light at the water's edge.
Artist Statement: "I've spent much of the last four years in what felt like some sort of artistic wilderness. How to paint? What to paint? Why paint it? Does it matter?
I joined a Zen group. Learned to meditate. Learned that my thoughts are just thoughts, reality being largely up for grabs.
I went back to painting basics: Working outside, something I have always enjoyed. Looking for the simplest, most succinct statement of what I saw in front of me. I also worked on a series of color studies using the slightest of shifts in value and temperature. Tried different media including acrylic, watercolor and pastels.
I looked closely at abstract art, particularly Agnes Martin, a minimalist, and Joan Mitchell, an abstract expressionist. Very different approaches. One very subtle, deliberate and meditative, a lover of stripes like me. The other a wildly-swinging, impassioned colorist. I also looked closely at Luminism, a 19th-century school of painting that I have always loved.
These paintings are a result of that research, titrated through me. I don't think I'm trying to say anything earthshaking. I think I am simply sharing what I find particularly beautiful or moving."
Provenance: private Salt Lake City, Utah, USA collection, acquired in 2022; ex-Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri, USA
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- Condition: Mounted in custom frame. Both painting and frame are in excellent overall condition with suspension wire on verso for display. Signed at lower right and titled and dated on verso.
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