Beautiful Manoucher Yektai oil paper. 28 x 23 inches. Provenance: private owner. The paper has some oxidation.
Biography: 1922 - 2019. Manoucher Yektai (born December 22, 1922) is an American artist associated by critics with the school of New York School* Abstract Expressionism, but in fact was an abstract painter who held to his own course, which touched on Abstract Expressionism as well as other "isms".Born in Tehran, Iran, Yektai dropped out of the Fine Arts Faculty of Tehran University without obtaining a degree. Between 1945 and 1947, he studied with Amédée Ozenfant in Paris, France, and later in New York City.From 1946 to 1947, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts* and at the Atelier* of André Lhote in Paris, France. From 1947 to 1948, he studied at the Art Students League* of New York in New York City with Robert Hale.He has many works in American and European collections and museums, especially in the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, SFMOMA, and in numerous private collections such as the Poindexter collection.Yektai became a naturalized American citizen in 1959.

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