
Dress Rehearsal 彩排
Tomoo Gokita's 'Dress Rehearsal' combines acrylic and gouache techniques on canvas to create a theatrical narrative. The work suggests performance and preparation through its compositional choices and layered paint application.
- Medium
- acrylic and gouache on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 10, 2021
Estimate: $1,200,000 to $2,200,000
Lot 521
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Artists in conversation

Shoji Ueda
Japanese · b. 1913

Ueda shared Gokita's fascination with theatrical staging and performance narrative, creating images where figures inhabit dreamlike constructed scenes with a similar tension between presence and artifice.

Marlene Dumas
South African · b. 1953

Dumas works in acrylic and gouache on canvas to render enigmatic figurative compositions that carry strong psychological and performative weight, closely mirroring Gokita's layered narrative approach and moody tonal atmosphere.

Neo Rauch
German · b. 1960

Rauch creates densely layered figurative paintings in which characters appear caught mid performance within surreal theatrical environments, echoing the narrative staging and painterly ambiguity central to Gokita's work.
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