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Lot 111: Nobuo Kubota, Red Square

Est: $400 CAD - $500 CADPassed
4th Meridian Fine ArtPenticton, BC, CASeptember 27, 2020

Item Overview

Description

One of the most remarkable sound artists in Canada, Nobuo Kubota is a sculptor, installation artist, architect and sound singer. Born in Vancouver in 1932, and though raised in Canada was instilled with Japanese culture: language, Shinto legends, folk tales, music, and Noh theatre and opera. He came to identify with Zen Buddhism and used a Canada Council grant in 1972 to spend a year in Japan. Kubota was part of the “modernists” stable of the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in the 1970s. As a member of the Canadian Creative Music Collective (CCMC) he performed with the Four Horsemen, a preeminent sound poetry quartet, and has nurtured a love of jazz, with scat singing influencing his sound singing. Created as part of the limited edition series of the Artists Jazz Band, 1974 Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. A complete portfolio of all nine prints is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The Artists’ Jazz Band itself was a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group initially composed of Toronto visual artists associated with the abstract-expressionist movement of the late 1950s. Collectively self-taught, it was formed in 1962 in a studio over the First Floor [jazz] Club by Dennis Burton, who played saxophone, and Richard Gorman, who played bass — both were members only briefly — with Graham Coughtry (trombone), Nobuo Kubota, (saxophones), Robert Markle (tenor saxophone and piano), and Gordon Rayner (drums). It included on a casual basis many other artists and musicians, including Bill Smith, Michael Snow, the bassist Jim Jones, and the guitarist Gerald McAdam.

Dimensions

20" x 20"

Artist or Maker

Medium

Colour lithograph on paper

Date

1974

Condition Report

Excellent condition. Please email for a detailed condition report.

Provenance

Private collection; South Okanagan, BC.

Notes

Signed, dated and numbered along the bottom. Unframed.

Payment & Shipping

Payment

Accepted forms of payment: MasterCard, Money Order / Cashiers Check, Paypal, Visa, Wire Transfer

Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.

Auction Details

September 2020 Fine Arts and Collectibles Auction

by
4th Meridian Fine Art
September 27, 2020, 04:00 PM PST

104-1475 Fairview Rd, Penticton, BC, V2A 7W5, CA

Terms

Buyer's Premium

18.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$99$5
$100$499$10
$500+$25

Extended Bidding

5 minutes/bid

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2. A Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 5% and 7% Provincial Sales Tax (PST) will be charged on the hammer price and buyer's premium for B.C. residents. Goods shipped out of province are taxed at the local rate for the recipient.

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9. All currency figures are in Canadian dollars.

Payment and Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.

Payment and Shipping

Payment: Payment should be made in full within ten days following the sale by email transfer, cheque, cash, bank draft, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, unless other arrangements have been made with the auctioneer prior to the sale.

Packing & Shipping: At 4th Meridian, we are pleased to provide clients with packing and shipping. All packing and shipping is done in house at the expense of the purchaser, ie. you. If you are the successful bidder on one or more lot(s), you will receive email notification as such.