Deborah Poynton

South African | 1970

Deborah Poynton is a South African Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1970.

How much does a Deborah Poynton cost?

Deborah Poynton's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 314 USD to 26,102 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Deborah Poynton's most expensive painting?

Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 26,102 USD for 7 Works: The lesson, sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 2012.

Where can I see Deborah Poynton's works?

Numerous key galleries and museums such as Stevenson, Cape Town have featured Deborah Poynton's work in the past.

Deborah Poynton in the news

Deborah Poynton has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Artthrob in January 2022.

Featured for Sale

Portrait of Guy

By Deborah Poynton

Strauss & Co., Cape Town

At Auction

Notable Lots

Diptych: Safety and Security - Deborah Poynton

Diptych: Safety and Security ,2005

By Deborah Poynton

Untitled ,2007

By Deborah Poynton

+170%

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Strelitzia ,1999

By Deborah Poynton

+27%

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Upcoming Lots

Portrait of Guy

By Deborah Poynton

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Recent Auction Results

Portrait of Guy

By Deborah Poynton

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Untitled, diptych ,2006

By Deborah Poynton

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DEBORAH POYNTON

By Deborah Poynton

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Past Exhibitions

Deborah Poynton: Fever Dream

Stevenson, Cape Town

Cape Town | South Africa

Mar 29,2025 - May 10,2025

Deborah Poynton: A Thin Veil

Stevenson, Amsterdam

Amsterdam | Netherlands

Nov 02,2024 - Dec 14,2024

The Artist List

Stevenson, Cape Town

Cape Town | South Africa

Nov 25,2023 - Jan 20,2024

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Articles

Artthrob 31/01/2022

A review by Ben Albertyn on the 31st of January 2022. This should take you 5 minutes to read.

Artthrob 21/06/2021

About a month ago, Stevenson ran an online exhibition called 鈥楽tudios鈥�. Noticing, perhaps, the short-fallings of the Online Viewing Room (OVR), 鈥楽tudios鈥� was framed as an exhibition of the artist鈥檚 studio practice, rather than the art itself.

Artthrob 29/04/2021

Realism is something of an anathema for the contemporary art world, and I can鈥檛 quite work out why.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Poynton's signature scenes constructed with elements cut from the world around us - flora and fauna, man-made objects, people and natural environments - are saturated with colour and detail; these canvases... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Johannesburg

鈥� ..Poynton鈥檚 work agitates paradoxes between real and unreal, the pictorial and the perceived... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Cape Town

鈥� ..Poynton combines finely detailed realism with loose gestural brushwork and unpainted areas in her muscular compositions... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Johannesburg

鈥� ..For Poynton, painting is an ongoing attempt to enter this world... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Johannesburg

鈥� ..The paintings depict, in Poynton's spare yet richly detailed realist style, different things: people, flowers, sea, grass and a pond... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Johannesburg