
Normandy
2020
Guy Yanai's 2020 oil painting 'Normandy' examines landscape and historical geography through a contemporary painterly lens. The work combines gestural brushwork with careful observation of place and light. Yanai's approach balances abstract and representational elements to evoke both personal and collective memory.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
New Now & Design
November 26, 2023
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Raoul Dufy
French · b. 1877

Dufy painted the Normandy coastline with vibrant yet serene color fields and loose gestural brushwork that balances abstraction with recognizable landscape, closely mirroring Yanai's impressionistic coastal approach and his evocation of light and place.

Alex Katz
American · b. 1927

Katz works in oil on canvas with simplified representational forms and cool blue tonal palettes to capture landscapes and serenity, sharing Yanai's contemporary painterly sensibility that hovers between the abstract and the figurative.

Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969

Brown's oil paintings merge gestural brushwork with landscape observation and a layered sense of collective memory, qualities that align closely with Yanai's method of evoking place and history through a contemporary painterly lens.
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