Manoucher Yektai
Slifkin, Robert / Farzin, Media
The first thorough overview of a long-neglected Abstract ExpressionistWith decadent colors, loose brushstrokes and heavy-handed impasto, the paintings of the Iranian American artist Manoucher Yektai (1921-2019) fuse Eastern and Western traditions, synthesizing a unique blend of abstraction and figuration that owes as much to Franz Kline as it does to Cézanne and the poetry of Rumi.Influenced by his early life in Iran and his visits to Paris, a...