Kazuo Nakamura Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Kazuo Nakamura Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 05, 2021
KAZUO NAKAMURA (1926 - 2002): "INNER STRUCTURE"
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
1961; oil on canvas; signed lower right; Provenance: The National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Exhibition for Poland and The Member's Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (labels verso); 49 1/2 inches x 40 3/4 inches; 50 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches
Abell Auction
Jun. 19, 2019
KAZUO NAKAMURA (Canadian, 1926-2002) UNTITLED ABSTRACT IN BLUE.
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Kazuo Nakamura, best known for his abstract paintings and murals, was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Influenced by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Jock MacDonald, his style included geometric semi abstracts using lyrical block strokes of paint and minimalist abstracts, using fine lines and monochromatic colors. He was a member of the "Painters Eleven", a group of Canadian Abstract painters inspired by New York School expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. This work is similar in style to his Inner Structure and Inner Expansion works. The work bears a label fragment on verso with pencil inscription "Kazuo Nakamura". Provenance: A Canadian private collection. Artist: KAZUO NAKAMURA (Canadian, 1926-2002) Condition: Very good, with minor grime and several small paint losses. Frame: Vintage ebonized woodMedium: Oil on MasoniteSignature: Signed lower right "K. Nakamura"Title: UNTITLED ABSTRACT IN BLUE.Work Size: 34-1/2" x 23" Condition: Dimensions: Framed: 37 - 1/4" x 25" x 1".
Morphy Auctions
May. 26, 2019
Kazuo Nakamura, Sans titre/Untitled, 1957
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
Oil and string on panelxHuile et fil sur panneau
BYDealers Auction House
May. 26, 2019
Kazuo Nakamura, Untitled (Block Structure)x1956
Est: $55,000 - $75,000
Oil on panelxHuile sur panneau
BYDealers Auction House
May. 18, 2019
Kazuo Nakamura (1926-2002)# Komposition, olie på lærred, fremstår med lille
Est: - kr12,000
Kazuo Nakamura (1926-2002)# Komposition, olie på lærred, fremstår med lille hul i lærred, 84 x 99
Svendborg Auktionerne ApS
Dec. 16, 2018
Kazuo Nakamura - Morning Landscape
Est: $1,800 - $2,400
Morning Landscape (watercolour, 14.5" x 20.5", framed)
Westbridge Fine Art Auction House
Jul. 12, 2018
KAZUO NAKAMURA (CANADIAN, 1926-2002), UNTITLED (MOON), ETCHING; SIGNED AND NUMBERD 94/100 (Plate, 7.4” x 9”)
Est: $150 - $200
KAZUO NAKAMURA (CANADIAN, 1926-2002)UNTITLED (MOON)ETCHING; SIGNED AND NUMBERD 94/100 (Plate, 7.4” x 9”)Provenance:Estate of Alison Hymas, Toronto, ONEstimate: $150—200
Waddington's
Jul. 12, 2018
KAZUO NAKAMURA (CANADIAN, 1926-2002), UNTITLED (FIELD), INK SKETCH; INITIALED K LOWER RIGHT; INSCRIBED ON HAND WRITTEN CARD: Best wishes and success in your art gallery (Sight, 4.5” x 6”) Note: Given to Jordan Gallery, Toronto
Est: $150 - $200
KAZUO NAKAMURA (CANADIAN, 1926-2002) UNTITLED (FIELD)INK SKETCH; INITIALED K LOWER RIGHT; INSCRIBED ON HAND WRITTEN CARD: Best wishes and success in your art gallery (Sight, 4.5” x 6”) Note: Given to Jordan Gallery, TorontoEstimate: $150—200
Waddington's
Apr. 19, 2018
KAZUO NAKAMURA, R.C.A., GREEN LANDSCAPE WITH RIVER, watercolour, 15 ins x 21 ins; 38.1 cms x 53.3 cms
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
KAZUO NAKAMURA, R.C.A.GREEN LANDSCAPE WITH RIVERwatercoloursigned and dated ‘59 15 ins x 21 ins; 38.1 cms x 53.3 cms Provenance:Private Collection, MontrealEstimate: $1,200–1,500
Waddington's
Jan. 07, 2018
Kazuo Nakamura, Watercolor on Paper, Signed
Est: $500 - $800
Kazuo Nakamura, Watercolor on Paper, Signed Condition: good overall Dimension:
Antique Reader
May. 29, 2017
KAZUO NAKAMURA, R.C.A., INNER STRUCTURE, oil on canvas, 24 ins x 31.25 ins; 61 cms x 78.7 cms
Est: $25,000 - $40,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA, R.C.A.INNER STRUCTUREoil on canvassigned and dated 1961 on the stretcher 24 ins x 31.25 ins; 61 cms x 78.7 cms Provenance:Sale of Canadian Art, The Women’s Committee of the Art Gallery of Toronto (circa 1962)Private Collection, TorontoKazuo Nakamura (1926-2002) was one of the founding members of the abstract group known as Painters Eleven (1953-60). While the younger members (Town, Ronald, Hodgson) practiced a rapid calligraphic style akin to American “action painting,” stylistic individualism prevailed among members of the group. Nakamura’s reductive, geometricized compositions stood out within this diversity of abstractions.Born in Vancouver, Nakamura was interned with his family at Tashme, British Columbia during the Second World War. He later received his artistic training at Hamilton Technical and Art School and Central Technical School in Toronto from 1948-51. The two most important influences on his work, Nakamura explained, were Jock Macdonald, and Bauhaus teacher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose interest in connecting art and science paralleled his own. Nakamura sought to reveal the underlying patterns found in nature, believing art to be the artist’s concept or equivalent of their environment and thoughts.Inner Structure of 1961 was preceded by a series of dichromatic “inner views” that Nakamura painted in the mid-1950s, in which structures were built up of fine lines, appearing to either emerge from or retreat into an amorphous ground. Nakamura also executed a group of monochromatic “string paintings,” applying white oil paint over string affixed to the support, then covering the surface with a muddy wash, most of which he then wiped clean as one would an etching plate. A visible pattern resulted where the pigment was caught by the raised string. The titles of these works often reference nature. Later, string was replaced by raised lines of acrylic paint, as in Inner Structure.Here, Nakamura appears to seek an equivalent for the perception of built space. It recalls the diagrams of Renaissance artists, who devised a mathematical system to represent space—linear perspective—in which receding lines converge at an imaginary vanishing point along the horizon. However, the nature of the space is ambiguous. The viewer could read the arrangement of lines as receding space, but it could also be interpreted as the plan of an ancient ziggurat. However, the nest of four-sided shapes just left of centre does not comply with the laws of linear perspective, and parts of the construction are rubbed out or incomplete. It is, after all, a human construction which has no parallel in nature; and it may be this incongruity that Nakamura was commenting upon.Estimate: $25,000–40,000
Waddington's
Nov. 21, 2016
KAZUO NAKAMURA, R.C.A., UNTITLED LANDSCAPE ‘81, watercolour on paper, 15 ins x 22 ins; 36.2 cms x 51.4 cms
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA, R.C.A.UNTITLED LANDSCAPE ‘81watercolour on papersigned 15 ins x 22 ins; 36.2 cms x 51.4 cms Provenance:Gustafson Galleries, TorontoPrivate Collection, OntarioPrivate Collection, British Columbia (by descent)Estimate: $1,500–2,000
Waddington's
Jul. 02, 2016
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002
Est: $600 - $800
Landscape Watercolor on paper 19x24 cm. Signed.
Tiroche Auction House
Dec. 02, 2015
Kazuo NAKAMURA (Japanese/ Canadian 1926 - 2002)
Est: $800 - $1,200
UNTITLED: stormy landscape, watercolour on paper, signed lower right. Visible: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" / 19.1cm x 24cm. Framed: 13 1/2" x 16 1/2" / 34.1cm x 41.9cm.
A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals
Jun. 10, 2015
Kazuo Nakamura (1926-2002)Paysage
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
French Description Lavis d'encre de Chine sur papier signé et daté au dos English Description China ink wash, signed and dated on the back
FauveParis
May. 25, 2015
KAZUO NAKAMURA, SUSPENDED LANDSCAPE, oil on canvas, 43 ins x 45 ins; 109.2 cms x 114.3 cms
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA SUSPENDED LANDSCAPE oil on canvassigned and dated '69; also signed, dated 1969 and inscribed "Toronto" on the stretcher 43 ins x 45 ins; 109.2 cms x 114.3 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:Kazuo Nakamura, quoted in Dorothy Cameron, Sculpture '67, unpaginated.Note:"The contribution of the artist is to extend visual knowledge as a way of understanding our universe. I, as an artist, am never wholly isolated from anyone else, from the labourer or the scientist. We are all, each in his own way, making a new society, or a part of that society. On the other hand, since some perception and foresight beyond the norm is a necessary attribute of the functioning artist, I must admit to a certain sense of unavoidable 'apartness.'"Viewing mathematics as a key to form and design, Nakamura formulated artwork that was both alluring and precisely ordered. Atop a backdrop of indigo, the artist places bands of white, mimicking foolscap. His lines are clean, intersecting only with a circular porthole, a window to a landscape. Mirroring the small, diagonal brushstrokes of Cézanne, Nakamura creates a terrain of greens and blues. His restricted palette excites both the eye and the mind, like Euclidean geometry played out in a bloom of algae.
Waddington's
Mar. 05, 2015
KAZUO NAKAMURA, FIELD OF WILD GRASSES, ink drawing, Sight 14 ins x 20 ins; 35.6 cms x 50.8 cms
Est: -
KAZUO NAKAMURAFIELD OF WILD GRASSESink drawingsigned and dated '57 Sight 14 ins x 20 ins; 35.6 cms x 50.8 cms Provenance:Collection of Tobie Steinhouse, R.C.A.Private Collection, TorontoEstimate: $1,200-1,500
Waddington's
Mar. 05, 2015
KAZUO NAKAMURA, LANDSCAPE WITH BRIDGE, ink drawing, 15 ins x 22 ins; 38.1 cms x 55.9 cms
Est: -
KAZUO NAKAMURALANDSCAPE WITH BRIDGEink drawingsigned and dated '54 15 ins x 22 ins; 38.1 cms x 55.9 cms Estimate: $1,200-1,500
Waddington's
Nov. 24, 2014
KAZUO NAKAMURA, SUMMER MORNING, oil on canvas, 25 ins x 31 ins; 63.5 cms x 78.7 cms
Est: $20,000 - $25,000
KAZUO NAKAMURASUMMER MORNINGoil on canvassigned and dated '61 25 ins x 31 ins; 63.5 cms x 78.7 cms Provenance:Acquired directly from the artistPrivate Collection, TorontoLiterature:Ihor Holubizky "Nakamura: The Method of Nature" in Kazuo Nakamura: the Method of Nature, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 2001, pages 10 and 14.Note:The artist in a 1993 interview said, "'it takes energy to do abstract work. Every once in a while, I do landscapes, to do what's on top.'" Many reviewers and art critics have said that Nakamura is "one artist doing the work of three or four."
Waddington's
Sep. 18, 2014
KAZUO NAKAMURA, UNTITLED LANDSCAPE, watercolour, 15 ins x 21.75 ins; 38.1 cms x 55.2 cms
Est: -
KAZUO NAKAMURAUNTITLED LANDSCAPEwatercoloursigned and dated '51; another landscape on the reverse 15 ins x 21.75 ins; 38.1 cms x 55.2 cms Provenance:Acquired directly from the artistPrivate Collection, TorontoEstimate: $1,200-1,500
Waddington's
Sep. 18, 2014
KAZUO NAKAMURA, TWO PLANTS, REVERSED IMAGE, etching, Sheet 9.5 ins x 12.25 ins; 24.1 cms x 31.1 cms
Est: -
KAZUO NAKAMURATWO PLANTS, REVERSED IMAGEetchingsigned, dated '65 and numbered 3/25 in pencil in the lower margin Sheet 9.5 ins x 12.25 ins; 24.1 cms x 31.1 cms Provenance:Acquired directly from the artistPrivate Collection, TorontoEstimate: $300-400
Waddington's
May. 26, 2014
VARIOUS ARTISTS, COMPLETE "TORONTO 20" PRINT PORTFOLIO, 1965, various media and techniques, sheet size 26 ins x 20 ins; 66 cms x 50.8 cms
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
VARIOUS ARTISTSCOMPLETE "TORONTO 20" PRINT PORTFOLIO, 1965twenty original prints contained in a hard grey portolfio case complete with opening pages of text, with tissue guards between each print, each print signed, several dated 1965, each numbered 55 in an edition of 100, sheet size 26 ins x 20 ins; 66 cms x 50.8 cmsNote:This limited edition folio was published by Art Publications in cooperation with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto at the University of Toronto Press, Toronto. It includes prints by Dennis Burton, Jack Bush, Graham Coughtry, Greg Curnoe, Sorel Etrog, Gerald Gladstone, Richard Gorman, Robert Hedrick, William Kurelek, Les Levine, Robert Markle, Weltraud Markgraf, John Meredith, Kazuo Nakamura, Gordon Rayner, William Ronald, Michael Snow, Mashel Teitelbaum, Tony Urquhart and Joyce Wieland.Ihor Holubisky provides an excellent description of the Portfolio on the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art's website (www.ccca.ca).
Waddington's
May. 26, 2014
KAZUO NAKAMURA, REVERSED IMAGES, oil on canvas, 32.25 ins x 34 ins; 81.9 cms x 86.4 cms
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
KAZUO NAKAMURAREVERSED IMAGESoil on canvassigned and dated '65; signed and dated on the stretcher, and titled and dated 1965 on the artist's label on the stretcher 32.25 ins x 34 ins; 81.9 cms x 86.4 cms Literature:Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 2010, page 301, and page 304 for a closely related work, Still Life Two Horizons, 1966, reproduced in color.Note:Nakamura considered themes over long stretches of time, pursuing "a further purity of expression," and as a result repetition is not at all uncommon in his work. Reversed Images belongs to a series the artist was developing in the mid-1960s in which great beauty can be found beneath the apparent simplicity. The elegance and tranquility of design exhibited here encourage close viewing.
Waddington's
May. 26, 2014
KAZUO NAKAMURA, SUNSET OVER FOREST, oil on canvas board, 23 ins x 23.5 ins; 58.4 cms x 59.7 cms
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
KAZUO NAKAMURASUNSET OVER FORESToil on canvas boardsigned 23 ins x 23.5 ins; 58.4 cms x 59.7 cms Literature:Kazuo Nakamura, John Mighton and Kerri Sakamoto, Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2004, page 11.Note:Nakamura's work possessed an orderliness and restraint that was not matched by any of his Painters Eleven peers. Many scholars have pointed to the artist's Japanese heritage as one cause of his singular aesthetic, and Nakamura himself permitted that "for Canadian painters, the main building block is based on the impact and awareness of Western cultural flow... For Canadian painters of Japanese parentage, it means some awareness of Eastern cultural flow - in particular the development of nature concept and sophistication of natural design." The linear abstractions that Nakamura created during the same period as Sunset over Forest were first worked out on paper before the compositions were committed to oil. Usually working in a more limited palette of blues and greens, organic shapes were drawn out from an underlying grid.
Waddington's
Mar. 20, 2014
KAZUO NAKAMURA, BLUE LANDSCAPE, watercolour, 15 ins x 22 ins; 38.1 cms x 55.9 cms
Est: -
KAZUO NAKAMURABLUE LANDSCAPEwatercolour; signed 15 ins x 22 ins; 38.1 cms x 55.9 cms Estimate: $1,200-1,800
Waddington's
Nov. 27, 2013
KAZUO NAKAMURA, MORNING DUSK, watercolour, 9 ins x 12 ins; 22.9 cms x 30.5 cms
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
KAZUO NAKAMURAMORNING DUSK, watercolour; signed 9 ins x 12 ins; 22.9 cms x 30.5 cms
Waddington's
Nov. 27, 2013
KAZUO NAKAMURA, INNER EXPANSION, oil on canvas
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
KAZUO NAKAMURAINNER EXPANSION, oil on canvas; signed and indistinctly dated; dated 1960 on a label on the reverse $20,000-30,000Exhibited: Toronto Collects, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1961.Kazuo Nakamura: The Method of Nature, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (November 2001-March 2003), cat no.23.Literature: Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004, cover illustration for a closely related work, reproduced in colour.
Waddington's
Mar. 14, 2013
KAZUO NAKAMURA
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA NIGHT FALL, MAY 1955, ink on paper; signed 11.5 ins x 17.25 ins; 28.8 cms x 42.5 cms Provenance: Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto. Private Collection, Toronto.
Waddington's
Nov. 22, 2012
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on board
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on board Autumn: Still Life 29 x 24 inches 73.7 x 61 centimeters signed and dated 1957 and on verso titled on the gallery label Provenance:The George Waddington Galleries, Montreal Private Collection, Montreal Kazuo Nakamura was the quietest member of the boisterous Painters Eleven, and Autumn: Still Life echoes his subtle confidence. This work was painted in 1957, and is from the Painters Eleven time period that brought Nakamura great international exposure - notably at the Canadian Abstract Painting exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada, which toured from 1956 to 1958. This attractive still life is transformed beyond realism through Nakamura's favoured linear abstraction that he used primarily in the mid-1950s. Potted plants were also a recurring motif, often with their leaves littered on the ground as seen here. The branches on this plant are starkly bare, but the work is full of rich fall colours; the deep orange leaves and saturated green trees are highlighted by the crisp blue sky. Autumn: Still Life reflects Nakamura's quiet abstract sensitivities and thus the essence of his own distinct contribution to the beginning stages of Canadian abstract painting. A work of this subject matter in a repeated motif entitled Four Plants is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Heffel
Sep. 13, 2012
KAZUO NAKAMURA NOVEMBER, watercolour; signed and
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA NOVEMBER, watercolour; signed and dated /58 15 ins x 20 ins; 37.5 cms x 50 cms
Waddington's
Jul. 07, 2012
Kazuo Nakamura Untitled
Est: $800 - $1,200
Kazuo Nakamura Untitled watercolor on paper 1951 Signed and dated. 37X50 cm,
Tiroche Auction House
Jun. 30, 2012
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Untitled
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Untitled Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the reverse 48X60.5 cm
Tiroche Auction House
May. 25, 2012
KAZUO NAKAMURA LANDSCAPE, oil on canvas; signed and dated '71 37 ins x 31 ins; 92.5 cms x 77.5 cms Provenance: Thielsen Gallery, London. Private Collection, Ontario. Literature: Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art,
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA LANDSCAPE, oil on canvas; signed and dated '71 37 ins x 31 ins; 92.5 cms x 77.5 cms Provenance: Thielsen Gallery, London. Private Collection, Ontario. Literature: Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, Vancouver/Toronto, 2010, page 316, for a similar landscape entitled Lakeside, Summer Morning (1961). Note: As Nakamura relocated throughout Canada during his lifetime, his artwork metamorphosed greatly; from representation of rural landscapes and cityscapes, to abstraction, to an increasingly magical amalgamation of abstraction and the natural world, the artist often worked simultaneously in these different styles. Deeply rooted in science and mathematics, Nakamura's art explores nature as complex patterns. In "Landscape" (1971), the artist works within a limited palette of greens and blues, bringing his serene lakeside landscape into view through a meticulous play of deeper and lighter shades and calculated vertical and horizontal brushstrokes. The work seems to dissolve within its own magnificent abstract surface.
Waddington's
Nov. 28, 2011
KAZUO NAKAMURA1926 - 2002
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
CORE WAVES NO. 3 signed lower right; signed and dated 1961 on the reverse oil on canvas 94 by 101.6 cm. 37 by 40 in.
Sotheby's
Nov. 09, 2011
Kazuo Nakamura, CSPWC, CGP, CSGA, Canadian (1926-2002), Untitled, mixed media on masionite, 24 x 15 1/4 in. (61 x 36 cm)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
inscribed lower right NAKAMURA
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
May. 26, 2011
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002 MORNING 1982 signed and dated lower right K. NAKAMURA '82; titled and dated on a label on the reverse and signed, dated 1982 and inscribed Toronto on the stretcher oil on canvas 45.7 by 55.9 cm. 18 by 22 in.
Sotheby's
May. 26, 2011
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002 LANDSCAPE WITH TREES; LANDSCAPE WITH ROLLING HILLS; LANDSCAPE three works, one illustrated, each signed lower right K. NAKAMURA and two dated '61 and '63 one ink, two watercolours 38.1 by 53.3 cm.; 38.7 by 54.6 cm.; 38.1 by 53.7 cm. 15 by 21 in.; 15 ¼ by 21 ½ in.; 15 by 21 1/8 in.
Sotheby's
May. 26, 2011
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002 LANDSCAPE; BEFORE THE STORM; LANDSCAPE three works, one illustrated, each signed lower right K. NAKAMURA and two dated '57 and '81 watercolours 38.1 by 53.3 cm.; 38.1 by 54.0 cm.; 38.1 by 54.6 cm. 15 by 21 in.; 15 by 21 ¼ in.; 15 by 21 ½ in.
Sotheby's
May. 17, 2011
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas Morning 41 3/4 x 37 inches 106 x 94 centimeters signed and dated 1962 and on verso signed, titled on the gallery label, dated and inscribed ""Toronto"" Literature:Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2007, page 115 Provenance:Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Private Collection, Montreal Kazuo Nakamura was a member of Painters Eleven, but, unlike the other members of this ground-breaking group, his work did not follow the gestural approach of the Abstract Expressionists, but a precise and subtle treatment of his pictorial elements. Nakamura worked simultaneously on both abstract and representational works, and was known for his monochromatic String paintings, illusionary Block Structure works and delicately abstracted landscapes, such as this fine early work from his important Hemlock series. Typical of this series is Morning's predominantly blue-green palette and fracturing of the water and reflections into softly modulated planes. This fracturing revealed his interest in patterns in nature. He stated, "I think there's a sort of fundamental universal pattern in all art and nature. Painters are learning a lot from science now. In a sense, scientists and artists are doing the same thing. This world of pattern is a world we are discovering together." Nakamura encompasses both the natural world and abstraction in the water; by focusing on reflective pattern in soft nuances of monochromatic colour, he creates an illusion of flatness, and by taking the eye from realism to abstraction, creates a sense of visual delight.
Heffel
Nov. 23, 2010
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA 1926 - 2002 RUSHING WIND signed and dated lower right '56; titled on an exhibition label on the stretcher oil on masonite 43.2 by 63.5 cm. 17 by 25 in.
Sotheby's
Sep. 24, 2010
KAZUO NAKAMURA Reversed images 1965, oil on
Est: £5,000 - £10,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA Reversed images 1965, oil on canvas, 32" x 34" Provenance: The reverse with the label of the Equinox Gallery stating the artist's name, the title of the work and the date "1975"
Duke's
Sep. 24, 2010
KAZUO NAKAMURA Suspended landscape, signed and
Est: £5,000 - £10,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA Suspended landscape, signed and dated (19)69, and the reverse with various labels, oil on canvas, 43" x 45"
Duke's
Sep. 24, 2010
KAZUO NAKAMURA "Morning", signed and the reverse
Est: £5,000 - £10,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA "Morning", signed and the reverse with a label, oil on canvas, 42" x 37" Provenance: The reverse with a label of the Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, dated 1962.
Duke's
Jun. 02, 2010
KAZUO NAKAMURA B.1926
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
KAZUO NAKAMURA B.1926 UNTITLED signed lower right nakamura ; titled and dated circa 1954 on a label on the reverse oil on masonite 61 by 42 cm. 24 by 16 ½ in.
Sotheby's
Mar. 25, 2010
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian watercolour on paper Night Fall
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian watercolour on paper Night Fall 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches 31.7 x 47 centimeters signed and on verso signed, titled, dated May 1955 and inscribed ""Toronto"" Provenance:A wedding gift from the Artist to the present Private Collection, Montreal
Heffel
Mar. 25, 2010
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas Landscape, Autumn
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas Landscape, Autumn 22 x 25 inches 55.9 x 63.5 centimeters signed and on verso signed, titled and dated 1976 on the stretcher Provenance:Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto
Heffel
Nov. 26, 2009
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas Blue Landscape 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 centimeters signed and dated 1975 and on verso signed and dated on the inside of the stretcher Literature:Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, 2007, page 115 Provenance:Thielsen Gallery, London Acquired from the above by the present Private Collector, Toronto, 1976 Kazuo Nakamura stated, "I think there's a sort of fundamental universal pattern in all art and nature. Painters are learning a lot from science now. In a sense, scientists and artists are doing the same thing. This world of pattern is a world we are discovering together." Nakamura was a founding member of the group Painters Eleven, which formed in Toronto in 1953. A diverse group, they spanned generations and styles, but all were committed to abstraction. Nakamura's work is simple, often monochromatic or of a small range of similar colours. He was very interested in science, the inner structure of things and the patterns of nat re. Hints of Nakamura's Japanese heritage appear at times in his works, which often have a calligraphic feel. His work is quite varied, including explorations of grids and lines, linear abstractions, block-like forms in surreal settings, explorations of the number patterns in the Pascal triangle and abstractions based on the structures of numbers. Blue Landscape explores patterning and reflection, optics and vibration. Although it is a very delicate abstraction, its roots are clearly in the tradition of landscape. The consignor will donate the proceeds from the sale of this work to Canadian charities. "
Heffel
Nov. 26, 2009
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Kazuo Nakamura 1926 - 2002 Canadian oil on canvas Inlets "31 x 37 inches 78.7 x 94 centimeters signed and on verso titled and dated 1972 on a label Provenance:MacMillan Bloedel Limited, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver Kazuo Nakamura was interned as a Japanese-Canadian during World War II. After his release, he trained at the Central Technical School in Toronto, he then joined Painters Eleven, a Toronto-based group dedicated to promoting abstract art in Canada. Throughout his career, Nakamura was obsessed with the challenge of creating order from chaos, and the existence of universal rhythms that connect mathematics and the natural world around us. Inlets, completed in 1972, articulates Nakamura's interest in the parallels between art and science with his regimented brush-strokes and unfaltering order. Nakamura was often referred to as the least expressionistic of the group Painters Eleven. His composition in Inlets is recognisably a landscape, and yet his mesmerising palette of cy blues and verdant greens entices the viewer into a complex and dispassionate dreamscape. The artist's contrast of rigid delineation with soft and flowing foliage delivers a silent order to an otherwise turbulent environment. Inlets is a superb example of one of Nakamura's most popular and important periods of work, examples of which are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. "
Heffel