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Leiko Ikemura — Head
Leiko Ikemura

Head

A haunting and ethereal head emerges from a hazy, atmospheric field of muted color, rendered with Ikemura's characteristically loose and gestural brushwork. The figure hovers in an ambiguous, dreamlike space where the boundaries between form and ground dissolve, evoking a sense of fragility and psychological introspection. Ikemura's fluid handling of oil paint lends the work a poetic tension between presence and absence, the human and the otherworldly.

Medium
oil on canvas

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

June 28, 2016

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Leiko Ikemura, Head

A haunting and ethereal head emerges from a hazy, atmospheric field of muted color, rendered with Ikemura's characteristically loose and gestural brushwork. The figure hovers in an ambiguous, dreamlike space where the boundaries between form and ground dissolve, evoking a sense of fragility and psychological introspection. Ikemura's fluid handling of oil paint lends the work a poetic tension between presence and absence, the human and the otherworldly.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Japanese, Expressionism, Melancholic, Abstraction, Portrait, Modern, Head, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary