Monika Kinley OBE (24 August 1925 – 9 March 2014)[1] was a British art dealer, collector and curator, particularly noted for her championing of the work and integrity of outsider artists.
August Wolf was interned in an enemy aliens' camp, and Monika found herself, at the beginning of the World War II, on a train to Whitby, where she stayed at a boarding school run by Anglican nuns.
She acted for Prunella Clough, Keith Vaughan, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, and as an adviser to museums and galleries.
[2] Victor had been married to the portrait photographer Ida Kar until her death in 1974 and had already been dealing in outsider art for a decade by the time he met Monika.
She made a number of journeys across the world searching for untrained and unknown people making paintings, sculpture and other objects.
[8] In the 2013 New Year Honours, Kinley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the visual arts.