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Senior Director, Fine Art
Miki Hayakawa was greatly influenced by the works of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, of whom she was a great admirer. In the present work, she combines her skills as a portraitist as well as a painter of still lifes. Portraying herself in the simple frock of an art student, she looks intently at the viewer, affirming her admiration of Cézanne by including a still life of a French faience pitcher and an arrangement of fruit next to an open art book. The highly patterned background showcases her decorative skills and act as a counterpoint to the direct simplicity of the scene. Hayakawa joins other women painters like Henrietta Shore, Helen Forbes, Agnes Pelton and Helen Lundeberg to create a powerful legacy of Modernism in California.
A copy of the recently-released book, The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda Hayakawa by Dr. ShiPu Wang, accompanies the lot.