Work, no. B.0

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Masaaki Yamada (1930 - 2010)
Work, no. B.0
signed and dated Masaaki Yamada 1956 (on the reverse)
with attached artist’s label titled and dated Work No. B.0, 1956 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
16 x 22.5 cm.
Painted in 1956

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Lot Essay

Masaaki Yamada was an abstract painter who moved from producing Cubist still lifes to pure abstraction in the late 1940s-1950s. He then moved to depicting stripes during the late 1950s and 1960s, followed by “juxtaposed rectangles”.

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