Post War & Contemporary Art 
13 September 2023
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Kikuo Saito 1939–2016

Green Almond

1982
acrylic on canvas 91 h × 42½ w in (231 × 108 cm)
estimate: $60,000–80,000
result: $50,400
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Signed, titled and dated to verso ‘Kikuo Saito '82 Green Almond’.
provenance: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York | Private Collection

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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The backdrop of a performance has influenced the layout and the component elements of [the] paintings. The slow rhythms of a stage piece have somehow been transubstantiated into a slow accretion of marks across a surface.

Art critic Karen Wilkin on the influence of choreography and stage direction in Saito’s work

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