Framed acrylic on canvas titled, "Her Prayer". Signed lower left center of painting. Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilian parents. She started her career as a painter at the age of 20. Le Kinff lived and worked in Italy for twelve years learning the ancient techniques of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught by masters in Florence and Livorno. She began to create serigraphs in the mid 1980`s and uses this technique exclusively in the creation of her original graphic works. Recently she began to use collage. She works without a model and her inspiration comes from travel, her dreams, reading and her imagination. Her subjects are extremely diverse, and include musical scenes, poetic interpretations of people caught in an intimate moment of their lives, and couples elegantly dressed, out for a night on the town. Her influences include the hidden sensuality of Braque, the masterful drawing of Matisse, the elegance of Modigliani and the precocious maturity of Egon Schiele who died at the age of 28. In 1998, Le Kinff was selected as the official World Cup Artist. For that distinction, she created a painting that was minted into a commemorative coin by the French Government, an honor never before offered to a living French artist. Overall size: 26 1/2 x 32 in. Sight size: 15 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.