Paul Winstanley
British · b. 1954 · Painter, Printmaker
Paul Winstanley is a British painter and photographer based in London. Since the late 1980s, he has been known for meticulously rendered, photo-based paintings of uninhabited,… (Wikipedia)
Own a work by Paul Winstanley? Get a free auction estimate →
Record prices
Woman at a Window 3Grisebach · €22,860≈ $24,757≈ £19,152Sign up to see
Institute 2Grisebach · €8,925≈ $13,174≈ £6,377Sign up to see
Two works: (i) Shack 1 (color); (ii) Shack 2 (black and white)Phillips · $9,675≈ £7,327≈ €8,330Sign up to see
Paul Winstanley’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Paul Winstanley is a British painter and photographer based in London. Since the late 1980s, he has been known for meticulously rendered, photo-based paintings of uninhabited, commonplace, semi-public interiors and nondescript landscapes viewed through interior or vehicle windows. He marries traditional values of the still life and landscape genres—the painstaking transcription of color, light, atmosphere and detail—with contemporary technology and sensibilities, such as the sparseness of minimalism. His work investigates observation and memory, the process of making and viewing paintings, and the collective post-modern experience of utopian modernist architecture and social space. Critics such as Adrian Searle and Mark Durden have written that Winstanley's art has confronted "a crisis in painting," exploring mimesis and meditation in conjunction with photography and video; they suggest he "deliberately confuses painting's ontology" in order to potentially reconcile it with those mediums.
Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In the collections of
TateArts Council Collection, Southbank CentreMuseum of Modern ArtSouthampton City Art Gallery
Museum representation from open data (Wikidata, museum collection datasets); links go to the museum or its collection record.
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), Tate collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.