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May 26, 2014

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LOT 20

Lot 20

KAZUO NAKAMURA

KAZUO NAKAMURA
Lot 20 Details
KAZUO NAKAMURA

SUNSET OVER FOREST

oil on canvas board
signed
23 ins x 23.5 ins; 58.4 cms x 59.7 cms

Estimate $12,000-$18,000

Realised: $21,240
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Literature:

Kazuo Nakamura, John Mighton and Kerri Sakamoto, Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2004, page 11.

Note:

Nakamura’s work possessed an orderliness and restraint that was not matched by any of his Painters Eleven peers. Many scholars have pointed to the artist’s Japanese heritage as one cause of his singular aesthetic, and Nakamura himself permitted that “for Canadian painters, the main building block is based on the impact and awareness of Western cultural flow...  For Canadian painters of Japanese parentage, it means some awareness of Eastern cultural flow – in particular the development of nature concept and sophistication of natural design.”
 
The linear abstractions that Nakamura created during the same period as Sunset over Forest were first worked out on paper before the compositions were committed to oil.  Usually working in a more limited palette of blues and greens, organic shapes were drawn out from an underlying grid.  

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