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TAKAO TANABETHE FOOTHILLSacrylic on canvassigned; also signed, titled and dated 10/78 on the reverse and on the stretcher 55 ins x 72 ins; 139.7 cms x 182.9 cms Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoLiterature:Roald Nasgaard, "Adventures in Abstraction," Takao Tanabe, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 2005, page 89.Note:The landscapes of Takao Tanabe focus on defined colour planes, amalgamating Canadian subject matter and the techniques of Asian Art. In the Prairie Paintings, Tanabe reduced the prairies to their essential features and, in turn, emphasized their expansiveness. Describing a similar work from the series, Nasgaard writes: "A dust storm, which can give an unearthly yellow tinge of refracted light to a prairie sky, might be clearing or approaching... (T)he foreground is modulated with dense velvety darks and crossed... by the gash of a cart road or dry riverbed... The atmosphere is palpable and raw and filled with subtly scintillating light."