Post War & Contemporary Art 
12 March 2025
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Kikuo Saito 1939–2016

Ghost Bay

1981
acrylic on canvas 30 h × 50 w in (76 × 127 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $30,480
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Signed, titled and dated to verso ‘Ghost Bay Kikuo Saito 1981’.
provenance: The Hett Gallery Ltd., Edmonton, AB | Collection of John and Linda Chen, Bay Harbor Islands, FL | 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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