Monumental Takako Yamaguchi Painting, 83″W

Monumental Takako Yamaguchi Painting, 83″W:

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Takako Yamaguchi (Japanese, b. 1952)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s); 1981
Materials: oil, metal and gold leaf on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 47.5″h, 82.75″w; 50.5″h, 86″w frame
Additional Information: Work is titled “Lecon 1, #4.” Provenance: Kathryn
Markel Fine Arts, New York, New York | Private Collection, Vero Beach, Florida.

“At the start of my career, now more than forty years ago, I made a conscious commitment to the idea of ‘difference.’ There I discovered decoration, fashion and beauty along with sentimentality, empathy and pleasure; forms and values I hold all the more precious for their long exclusion from serious consideration. Ever since then, I’ve aspired to make paintings that express this kind of ‘poetics of minority opinion,’ where the lost and abandoned object can be recovered and recognized for what it is — a genuinely different thing that is therefore interesting and provocative in ways that, for all its authority, the dominant discourse can never be.” – excerpt from Artist Statement, Dec. 2023, foundationforcontemporaryarts.org

Condition
very good except for small, discreet nick to top center right edge, minor corner wear, not examined outside frame (condition of art only; dark paint splatter to top edge of frame)

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