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TAKAO TANABEDOZOA, BLUE BLASToil on canvassigned, titled and inscribed "Vancouver #250" on the stretcher 36 ins x 34 ins; 91.4 cms x 86.4 cms Provenance:Private Collection, OntarioLiterature:Roald Nasgaard, "Adventures in Abstraction," Takao Tanabe, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 2005, page 47.Note:For a short time in the mid-1960s Tanabe was producing paintings that focused on geometry and colour, that featured "hard-edge design set against rivulets of poured colour or atmospheric washes, flat planes against passages of loose painterliness". While this work is not dated, it would seem to fit into this period of Tanabe's oeuvre.