Brandenburg Series Preoccupied - Heffel

HEFFEL FINE ART AUCTION HOUSE 9480 MIYUKI TANOBERCA 1937 ~Année de la femme ~ 1975 ~ Women’s Yearmixed media on board, signed and on versosigned, titled and dated June 30, 197630 x 56 in, 76.2 x 142.2 cmPROVENANCE:Marlborough~Godard, TorontoPrivate Collection, MontrealMiyuki Tanobe was 34 years old when she immigrated from Japan andsettled in Saint~Antoine~sur~Richelieu, Quebec. One could assume sheexperienced the heavy hand of an old patriarchal society growing up in80post~war Japan by her inclusion of the feminist protest gathering in Annéede la femme ~ 1975 ~ Women’s Year. Tanobe paints in nihonga, an old form ofJapanese painting that uses traditional artistic conventions, techniquesand materials, and her unique style has been described as pseudo~naïve.Tanobe challenges her admirers with a blunt look at the challenges andobstacles taken on by the Women’s Movement of the 1970s. The centralfigure of the landmark, Christ Church Cathedral on rue St. Catherine’s, iscontrasted to a skewed window display of women’s lingerie to the left; acontradiction of sorts that depicts the complexities of women’s rights. Butthe viewer still feels her deep affection for the city of Montreal, in herplayful details of a rich cosmopolitan scene on a winter’s day alongside hercommitment to the solidarity of les femmes unies.ESTIMATE: $20,000 ~ 25,000