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LOT 23 Still Life In Frame Manoucher Yektai(Iran, born 1922)

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Manoucher Yektai (Iran, born 1922)Still Life In Frame oil on canvas, framedsigned and dated 'Yektai 56' (lower right), executed in 1956177 x 126cm (69 11/16 x 49 5/8in).注脚A MONUMENTAL PAINTING OF A STILL LIFE BY MANOUCHER YEKTAI FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT MONROEProvenance:Collection of Robert Monroe, New YorkChristie's, Modern & Contemporary Art, Dubai, October 2016Private from a private collection, London"Yektai wanted to render us conscious of our existence from second to second, of the joy of breathing, of the rapid changes of things" – John Ashberry "Around the mid 1950's, Yektai entered his present phase, a period of immense bravura, lyricism, power, directness and of a determined abstract commitment" – Robert Pincus-Witten"His style, overrun by thick, torrential impastos as elegant as they are volatile, barely respects the shapes and edges of things. "nature" here suggests a movement that attracts the gestural propensities of the artist. ...there are so many exciting passages - particularly in the several tomato plants in which form and movement are as engaged as in his figures. Yektai continues to grow." - Clement Greenberg Bonhams have the rare honour of presenting one of the most formidable examples of Manoucher Yektai's inimitable and striking expressionist still life compositions. A painting of remarkable pedigree, "Still Life, Framed" was originally in the collection of Robert Monroe, a renowned photographic journalist and friend of the artistMonumental, powerful and enigmatic, "Still Life, Framed" exhibits all the lyrical intensity of Yektai's dramatic technique; an artist at the creative high point of his career, Yektai's 1950's work is exemplified by exhilarating lyric flurries of paint, thick rapier like strokes, and a virtuoso handling of impasto. Unlike his later, more somber, paired down still life compositions, like other works from the 1950's, the present work is imbued with a palpable sense of density and dynamism. Here we may notice the influence of action painting on Yektai's style with its powerful, energetic technique evident in the torrent of lush decisive strokes. This painterly looseness, however, is channeled within a well-contained, tight composition – the unlikely harmony of freedom and discipline writ large in paint. Born in Tehran, Yektai is considered one of the unsung founders of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. After an early encounter with Iranian painter Mehdi Vishkaei, Yektai decided almost overnight to become an artist, failing to show up for his school exams one morning and proclaiming that he was destined to be a painter. Renowned for shunning easel painting, Yektai's habit of working his canvases from the floor stem from a painting session in the outskirts of Tehran in the 1930's, where he found himself unable to work with his canvas propped against a tree due to the wind, ending up finishing the composition on the ground, a method that would stay with him for his whole career, and one to which he attributes much of his dynamism and artistic freedom. Between 1945 and 1947, he studied with Amédée Ozenfant in Paris, France, and later in New York City. In 1951 and 1952 Leo Castelli brought some friends, including early Abstract-Expressionist painters, to see Yektai's New York exhibitions shows. Castelli introduced him to the 9th Street Club in 1951 and he soon became a friend of Rothko,Tobey, Guston, and others. In the mid-1950S he was included in classic group exhibitions of early Abstract-Expressionism at the Stable Gallery and elsewhere, with older generation artists such as DeKooning, Pollock, Newman, and Kline. From 1957 till 1965 he showed at Poindexter. With this background it would be easy to regard Yektai as a key member of the New York School.In composition and technique, "Still Life, Framed" is a unique blend of the artists dramatic gestural style and the influence of the still life genre, and in particular the palette and textural quality of post-impressionists like Cezanne and Toulouse Lautrec. An artist that was a key member of one of the defining movements of twentieth century art, Yektai nevertheless demonstrated an artistic freedom and originality which set him apart from his peers

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