Canadian Fine Art Auction

May 26, 2014

LOT 114

Lot 114

TAKAO TANABE

TAKAO TANABE
Lot 114 Details
TAKAO TANABE

DOZOA, BLUE BLAST

oil on canvas
signed, titled and inscribed “Vancouver #250” on the stretcher
36 ins x 34 ins; 91.4 cms x 86.4 cms

Estimate $10,000-$15,000

Realised: $15,340
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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TAKAO TANABE
  • TAKAO TANABE
Provenance:

Private Collection, Ontario

Literature:

Roald Nasgaard, “Adventures in Abstraction,” Takao Tanabe, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 2005, page 47.

Note:

For a short time in the mid-1960s Tanabe was producing paintings that focused on geometry and colour, that featured “hard-edge design set against rivulets of poured colour or atmospheric washes, flat planes against passages of loose painterliness”. While this work is not dated, it would seem to fit into this period of Tanabe’s oeuvre.

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