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Darius Yektai
"Girl Reflection" oil and resin painting, upside down portrait with waterlilies

2024

$8,300
£6,310.29
€7,282.31
CA$11,617.77
A$13,008.80
CHF 6,787.34
MX$158,502.74
NOK 86,126.57
SEK 81,883.43
DKK 54,357.65
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"Girl Reflection" is an expressionist depiction merging a portrait of a girl laying with her arms crossed behind her head, and the surface of a pond adorned with lilypads. An exciting new series out of Darius Yektai’s studio this year, shows reflections of nature and people—a continuation of the Waterlily theme, but now more than ever, highlighting the reflectiveness of the water represented by the poured resin on top of and underneath the oil paint. It becomes muddled where nature stops, and the reflected image starts. 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, an Iranian who emigrated to the US after the Second World War, was a prominent Hamptons AbEx painter. Darius has picked up some traits from his father but pushes even further into what is now completely his-own. Darius' most recent body of work is bright, colorful, with oil and acrylic paints laid on thick. 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.
  • Creator:
    Darius Yektai (1973, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2024
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Sag Harbor, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: YEK-0069751stDibs: LU389314884102

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