Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
American, b. 1973
Darius Yektai was born in Southampton, New York, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home and studio in Sag Harbor. Darius grew up in a cultural home of art and artists, with his Greek-American mother and his father, Manoucher Yektai, an Iranian who emigrated to the United States after the Second World War. Manoucher was a prominent Hamptons Abstract Expressionist painter. Darius has picked up some traits from his father but pushes even further into what is now completely his own.
Darius’s most recent body of work is bright and colorful, with oil and acrylic paints laid on thickly. He's creating sculptural paintings that can't be read from left to right — they need to be examined from surface to base, from section to section, and then, overall, as an encompassing whole.
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Artist: Darius Yektai
"Surface Lilies on Silver Pond" Neo expressionist painting of lily pond
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract expressionist painting of a lily pond. This painting is a continuation of Yektai's Silver Pond series, but instead of using his usual oversized canvas, Yektai created a silv...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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"Sunset Willow" Bright Abstract Expressionist oil painting of pond and tree
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Sunset Willow" is a bright neo-abstract expressionist oil painting of a pond and weeping willow.
Artist Bio
Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. He lives and works o...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Resin, Epoxy Resin, Oil Pastel
"Starry Night 2" Neo Abstract Expressionist take on Van Gogh's famous painting
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A contemporary take on Vincent Van Gogh's most famous painting "Starry Night". Darius Yektai, a contemporary painter based in New York's beach enclave The Hamptons, uses resin along ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Resin, Epoxy Resin, Oil Pastel
"Pink Flowers" Abstract Expressionist oil and resin painting of flora polka dots
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A rare small painting from contemporary Abstract Expressionist, Darius Yektai. Although titled "pink flowers" the hue of the painting is really more peach, or a light orange. A patte...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Linen, Resin, Epoxy Resin, Raw Linen, Oil
Delphiniums In Glass Vase
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Real dried flowers are secured into this composition by resin—which also gives Yektai's paintings their signature depth, as he paints below and on t...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Epoxy Resin, Oil, Canvas
Glass Table
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A paintings from contemporary AbEx painter Darius Yektai
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
"Speckled Lily Pond" neo-expressionist painting, inspired by Claude Monet, 3D
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Darius Yektai's popular waterlily series of paintings are clearly inspired by Monet, yet take on a new-expressionist identity. Painted first, on linen with oil paint, Yektai then lay...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Pink Scarlett Pond
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Inspired by Monet's iconic waterlily landscapes, Darius Yektai uses a particularly unique approach to his waterscapes. In Yektai's Waterlily series, the artist utilizes bright, vivid...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Epoxy Resin, Oil
Black Table Red Legs
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A painting from the popular "black table" series by Darius Yektai.
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Epoxy Resin, Oil, Canvas
Pink and Green Pond
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstracted landscape of the artist's local pond.
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Black Plate
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An almost sculptural still-life painting by neo-abstract expressionist, Darius Yektai.
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Black Table, Green Hill
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In his latest series of flower paintings, Yektai creates a popular subject he always comes back to: a black table against a bright landscape. This particul...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Broken Vessels
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In Broken Vessels, Yektai continues to blur the edges of painting and sculpture. Recently he discovered that his father’s, Manoucher Yektai’s now empty studio was broken into, and th...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Ceramic, Found Objects, Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
"Orchid" neo abstract expressionist colorful still life with thick impasto
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Orchid" is a Neo Abstract Expressionist colorful still life with thick impasto. Yektai displays his fearlessness as an artist in the three-dimensional flower he constructs out of ju...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Sunflower Vase Red Table
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A vibrant and reflective floral from abstract expressionist artist, Darius Yektai. Yektai pours epoxy resin over his oil painting and then paints on top of the reflective resin furth...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil, Epoxy Resin
Cobalt Lilies
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In a natural progression of his now-famous Waterlily Series, Yektai created Cobalt Lilies, which straddles the present and some otherworldly dimension. Like the deep-blue matte plast...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Delphiniums in Glass Vase Double Still Life
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Delphiniums in Glass Vase Double Still Life is part of a new series debuting in this show, where Yektai has inculcated nature—employing the late 20th century effect of including ‘fou...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Wind Blown Sand at Gin Beach
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a beach on Gin Lane, by Darius Yektai. Painted en plein air on the bed of his truck, Yektai uses sweeping brushstrokes to approximate the e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Other Medium, Linen, Oil
"Green Lilies, Magenta Barn" 2022 oil and resin painting, abstract landscape
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In this affecting composition, Yektai combines the dynamism of the abstract expressionist style with the soft, meditative qualities of Monet's waterlilies.
Yektai first paints the canvas with loose strokes of rich deep greens. A pinkish red abstract form takes center stage - ang highlights of yellow flank the edges. Then he pours a clear-grade liquid resin onto the painted canvas and lets it harden into a glassy surface. Finally, he uses linear brushstrokes connecting colors into forms, in the typical impressionist style. Yektai varies the volume in which he applies paint, from thin and dry to sopping wet and thick. This process allows for a more three-dimensional experience of the painting. One can see through layers which build-up to create the flurry of brushstrokes. The reflective surface makes space for the viewer to see themselves in the painting, looking back at them. A contemporary notion.
Framed dimensions: 29 x 23 inches
Artist Bio
Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home and studio in Sag Harbor. He grew up in a cultural home of art and artists, with his Greek-American Mother, and his Father, Manoucher Yektai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Resin, Oil
Cherry Blossom
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting on canvas and resin. Yektai transforms the classical still life into a dynamic expressionistic composition with an abstract landscape in the background. A warm, soft ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Linen, Resin, Oil
Drip Splatter
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A splatter paint composition on resin, reminiscent of Jackson Pollock who lived and worked a short drive away from Yektai's studio. However, Yektai makes this abstract expressionist ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Resin, Oil
Peonies by Studio Window
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Yektai composes a still life of flowers and one of his own canvases in front of his studio window. One of Yektai's more personal paintings, he gives us a look into his point of view ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Linen, Oil
Silver Pond V
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A representational abstract depiction of "Silver Pond" on Long Island. Darius Yektai dives back into his popular "Silver Pond" palette in this dreamy waterscape. He paints his canvas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Resin, Oil, Acrylic
Sag Beach Orchid
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting, loosely painted en plein air on a beach in the Hamptons. A thick layer of epoxy resin separates the background from a thick impasto potted orchid.
Unfram...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Calla Lilies on Crooked Pond
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting, showing the edge of a blue tied table, porch or pool overlooking an abstract landscape. On the sharp edge of the foreground object sits a thickly painted va...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Odilon's Flowers
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract painting of flowers in a vase.
Unframed dimensions - 14 x 11 inches
Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. He liv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Alizarin Lilies
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A representational abstract painting of a lily pond. Airy washes of alizarin paint, built up more opaquely in areas, creates the background of this piece. Epoxy resin covers the aliz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Nasturtium, Diptych
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Nasturtium, Diptych" is an abstract diptych painting of two potted plants. On the lefthand canvas the background is painted a thin hookers green and resin was poured over the top. The potted flower is painted over the resin, sitting on a white stippled table with a thick yellow edge. Yellow stipples are painted around the plant. The righthand painting has intentionally exposed canvas soft smudges of green paint through the middle of the canvas and navy up in the upper lefthand corner, at the middle of the composition. A heavy impasto flower...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Epoxy Resin, Oil, Linen, Acrylic
Purple Falling Flowers
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Purple Falling Flowers' is abstract painting of flowers and vines over a pale teal and tan background. Bright green stems tangle together as if the flowe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil, Resin
Red Wave
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract painting that focuses on slight shifts in hue to set mood. The artist, being a surfer himself, imagines a wave of red and pink hues in this smaller scale abstract paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Red on Red
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting. Diluted red oil paint poured and dripped directly onto raw canvas, oil pastels have been drawn on top while the paint was still wet, allowing it to seep int...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Calla Lily on Yellow Glass Table
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting, loosely painted en plein air in a field in the Hamptons. Back in his studio, the artist poured a thin layer of epoxy resin on top of the exposed linen and o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil, Epoxy Resin
Blue Spin
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting, broad swaths of blue paint poured and spattered onto a raw stretched canvas. White paint has been blended into the blue at the "base" of the composition, ba...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Highland Terrace
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract oil painting on canvas and resin. This abstract landscape has a lot of depth, literally! The layers of paint and resin are built upon each other, the upper layers casting shadows below. The initial painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Salt Chuck
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting, loosely painted en plein air on a beach in the Hamptons. The painting captures a curling wave, just about to crash on the shore, the spray from the top of the wave watching in the wind off the ocean. The painting was done like a sketch done by impressionist artists back in the day, but on a much larger scale. Color notes jotted down urgently to capture the moment before it disperses like sea spray in the breeze. Yektai paints in a thick sculptural fashion...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
"Flower Diptych" contemporary floral abstraction, loud colorful vs quiet white
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract oil painting of flowers on two canvases. The lefthand canvas is full of dense impasto brushstrokes covering the full canvas and creating an undeniable sense of movement. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Untitled
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract oil painting on canvas and resin. This bright piece has a lot of depth, literally! The layers of paint and resin are built upon each other, the upper layers casting shadows ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil, Epoxy Resin
Black Roses Fuck
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract oil painting on canvas and resin. This moody piece has a lot of depth, literally! The layers of paint and resin are built upon each other, the upper layers casting shadows below. The glossy resin over the darker surface also creates a reflective surface. Just off of center is a brighter patch of cerulean emerging from the shades of black and dark grey. This piece can be hung horizontally or vertically. When hung vertically, the word "FUCK" can be read more easily at the bottom of the composition, when horizontal, the lines of the letters hide amongst the stems of the black roses...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Untitled - Lily Diptych
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract painting of a single lily. The lily sits on the righthand side of the composition against a textured black background. The sage green, grey field on the left of the compo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
"Daniels Lane" contemporary oil on resin painting colorful modern farm landscape
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a landscape in Sagaponack NY. Lines radiate across the canvas towards the bottom and right side of the canvas in shades of yellow, brown and orange, indicating rows of plants or tilled soil in a field. The field is surrounded by lush thick brush-stokes in shades of green flecked there and there with bright orange. The top fourth of the painting shows the sky, full of points of paint, most under the resin. The white dots above the resin cast shadows below, adding dimension to the piece. The two radiating lines that surround the lower righthand corner are also painted above the resin, one white and one a swirl of primary colors loosely mixed together. The raw white gessoed linen canvas is clearly visible between the precisely placed brush-strokes, all sealed under resin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Resin, Oil
Black and White Lily
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting on canvas and resin. The majority of the gessoed linen canvas is visible, the resin enhancing its texture. directly on the canvas are broadly painted impressions of w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Resin, Oil
Untitled - Two Pots
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Two oil paintings of potted tulips. The canvases are attached, but could be hung separately. Both compositions show a terra-cotta pot of tulips, the backgrounds of both have shades o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Blue Mimeo Lilies
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Blue Mimeo Lilies" is a medium scale painting, of faint waterlilies on a pond. This abstraction is part of his popular and important series of "Waterlilies" from 2019-2021. This pie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Edge of Pond
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Edge of Pond" is a painting on linen, created with layers of oil paint and resin. Swaths of oil paint are applied directly to the linen. Then, the canvas is laid flat, and Yektai po...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Resin, Oil
The Willow
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
The Willow, is a vertically oriented oil painting on canvas, with a layer of resin poured and hardened, to create a clear, reflective layer, reminiscent to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Resin, Oil, Canvas
Water Lilies: After Monet II
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Water Lilies: After Monet (Like Looking at a Bad Black and White Photo in an Old Textbook) II" is one of four versions in Darius Yektai's popular Waterlil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Waterlilies
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Waterlilies is a painting on linen, created with layers of oil paint, acrylic paint, and resin. The natural color of the raw linen makes up the base of the painting. Swaths of oil an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Resin, Oil, Acrylic
Water Lilies: After Monet III
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Water Lilies: After Monet (Like Looking at a Bad Black and White Photo in an Old Textbook) III" is one of four versions in his popular Waterlily Series fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
White Willow Lilies
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"White Willow Lilies", is a horizontally oriented oil painting on canvas, with a layer of resin poured and hardened, to create a clear, reflective layer, reminiscent to the surface o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Resin, Oil, Linen, Acrylic
White Tulips
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Darius Yektai's "White Tulips" is a large-scale, layered, oil on resin, on canvas painting.
White Tulips is archetypal in all but scale. Yektai’s stateme...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic, Resin, Oil
Large Tulips, Yellow Table
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Darius Yektai's "Large Tulips, Yellow Table" is a large-scale, multi-layered, oil on linen painting.
Dimensions are 6 ft tall x 12 ft wide.
Painting is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
From Tree to Sea
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract figure swinging on a tree branch in foreground. Seascape, coastline background. Thick, textural brush strokes.
Darius's most recent body of work is bright, colorful, wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Oil, Linen, Watercolor, Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Potted Still
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Potted Still" is an expressive, colorful still-life painting from Darius Yektai. Heavy outlines are prevalent, and paint is laid on thick, creating a sculptural quality.
Darius Ye...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Falling Stargazer
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Falling Stargazer is the latest in a long series of Falling Flower paintings. Here the Yektai signature swipe of blended color is mixed with stems and flowers falling akimbo to each ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
Montauk Daisies on Corn Field
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Montauk Daisies on Corn Field" is an oil painting depicting a field of corn painted directly on canvas. This painting bridges the gap between abstract and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil, Epoxy Resin
Cement Tulips
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Cement Tulips" is a Darius Yektai painting, using wet cement as paint, directly onto canvas. When painting with cement, you only have a short amount of time to work with the materi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Darius Yektai Abstract Paintings
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Concrete
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