Taku Obata B-Boys 2020 Lithograph, Signed Edition of 22, Natural Wood Frame
Taku Obata B-Boys 2020 Lithograph, Signed Edition of 22, Natural Wood Frame
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Bodies Turned to Motion
Obata smears his dancers into a spectrum, so the eye reads speed before it reads figures. The print is less a picture of breakdance than a record of its rhythm.
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Described as new and unused, kept framed. Not yet examined in hand.
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B-Boys, a 2020 lithograph by Taku Obata from a small edition of 22, offered as signed and presented in a light natural-wood frame. Image 54.7 x 79.3 cm; framed 60 x 85 cm.
The Piece
In B-Boys a line of dancers is caught mid-move and smeared across the sheet like a long-exposure photograph. The figures run from red and orange at the left through yellow and green to blue at the right, a full spectrum laid down in quick, dragged strokes, while a mist of pale blue spray settles beneath their feet.
Obata is a Japanese artist whose work returns again and again to the B-boy, the breakdancer, and to the moment a body turns into pure movement. The sheet is shown in a pale wood frame with the pencil signature at lower right.
Details
- Artist: Taku Obata
- Title: B-Boys
- Year: 2020
- Medium: Lithograph on paper
- Edition: 22 (as stated); the number is not shown in the photographs
- Signature: Offered as signed in pencil, lower right
- Image size: 54.7 x 79.3 cm (21.5 x 31.2 in)
- Framed size: 60 x 85 cm (23.6 x 33.5 in)
- Frame: Light natural wood
- Palette: Red, orange, yellow, green and blue over pale blue spray
- Condition: Described as new and unused
Condition
- Described as new and unused, kept framed.
- The Desk has not handled the work; please ask for close views of the signature and edition before you buy.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as signed and from an edition of 22, as the page states; the claim is presented as given and not as a finding of the Desk. Hang away from direct sunlight and damp, and keep the glazing clean with a dry cloth only.
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