Footnotes

Provenance
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Gallery Delaive, Walking Around Clouds, 3 - 27 February 2007
Rotterdam, Netherlands, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Colours in My Hand, 23 June - 21 August 2011
Leiden, Netherlands, Museum Volkenkunde, COOL JAPAN – Worldwide Fascination in Focus, 14 April - 17 September 2017

六角彩子
無題
壓克力 畫布
2007年作

簽名︰2007 藝術家簽名（右下）

來源
荷蘭阿姆斯特丹Delaive畫廊
現藏家得自上述來源

展覽
「Walking Around Clouds」，荷蘭阿姆斯特丹Delaive畫廊，2007年2月3日-27日
「Colours in My Hand」，荷蘭鹿特丹Kunsthal Rotterdam，2011年6月23日-8月21日
「COOL JAPAN – Worldwide Fascination in Focus」，荷蘭萊頓民俗博物館，2017年4月14日-9月17日

With her iconic style of vibrant colors, dynamic brushstrokes, and innocent girl images, Untitled is the largest work ever being offered in the auction market by the celebrated Japanese contemporary artist Ayako Rokkaku.

Ayako Rokkaku is instantly recognizable for her bright colours and playful compositions. She often depicts female figures with big eyes and elongated arms, expressive facial features that convey various emotions that bring up every protagonist's bold and carefree inner child. In the 2007 work Untitled, colourful flowers display over the white background, surrounded by flowers stands three girls in green, pink, and white dresses — the depiction resonates with the Three Graces in the early European Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's Primavera. Vividly captures the atmosphere of joy, beauty, and creativity bestowed by nature in this painting.

As a self-taught artist, Rokkaku's painting technique is also unique. Once stated that getting inspired by the imagination and rule-free in children's art, Rokkaku applies acrylic paint directly to the canvas using only her bare fingers and hands. Following the movement of hand gestures, she creates feathery, gentle, light-filled, and yet free strokes. The long lines are reminiscent of Impressionist artist Claude Monet's rapid and rough strokes. Rokkaku's performance-like painting method adds to the dynamic quality of her painting. As the artist herself has said: "I just remember this squishy, squelchy mess of paint all over my hands... I don't feel I'm really painting unless my hands are in direct contact with the paint. It's more fun that way".

Ayako Rokkaku is a talented artist whose vibrant paintings and unique approach to art build a variegated dreamy world and have earned her a place in today's international art world.

恣意繽紛的色彩與筆觸、目光純淨的女孩，日本知名當代藝術家六角彩子的作品《無題》，充滿她標誌性的風格，更是迄今釋出市場尺幅最大的作品。

六角彩子以其富含鮮豔色彩和俏皮構圖的繪畫而聞名。她經常描繪女性人物，筆下人物有著大眼睛和長長的胳膊，面部表情生動地表現各種情感，引出觀者心中自由無畏、肆意探索的內在小孩。創作於2007年的《無題》，色彩繽紛的花朵佈滿偌大的白色畫布，三個身穿綠、桃紅、白色洋裝的少女置身於花團錦簇中，讓人聯想到歐洲文藝復興早期畫家波堤切利作品《春》中的美惠三女神，大自然所賜予的快樂、美麗和豐富的創造力，躍然於畫布上。

作為一位自學成材的藝術家，六角彩子的技法也是獨一無二。她曾表示，因受到兒童繪畫中的想像力和不拘一格的啟發，她以手指和手掌直接沾取壓克力顏料塗在畫布上，隨著手勢的變化，率性而生動的筆觸，看起來柔和輕盈卻又注滿光線，頗有印象派大師克勞德．莫內神來一筆以快速筆觸捕捉光影變化的動感。六角彩子帶有表演性質的作畫方式，更加強了這一點，正如藝術家本人所說：「我只記得我的手上到處都是柔軟、潮濕的顏料⋯除非我的手直接接觸顏料，否則我不覺得我真正在畫畫。這樣更有趣。」

六角彩子是一位才華橫溢的藝術家，以其獨特的風格和技法在國際藝壇中脫穎而出，創造出一個如彩虹夢幻般的世界。