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Darius Yektai
"MilkyWay Stargazers" large scale painting, resin, figures looking at night sky

2025

$50,400
£37,974.99
€44,388.34
CA$71,371.42
A$72,684.07
CHF 41,723.71
MX$877,064.95
NOK 483,556.96
SEK 490,199.34
DKK 331,865.78

About the Item

"MilkyWay Stargazers" is a contemporary painting by Darius Yektai, made of oil paint, resin, pebbles, cardboard, and plywood. Signed on verso. In "MilkyWay Stargazers", Yektai switches his gaze, from looking down onto bodies of water adorned with waterlilies and willow trees, to looking up at the vast, wide open night sky. Ironically, the artist chose white pebbles to convey the shimmering galactic trail of the Milky Way. Tiny stones that are usually situated on the ground to be stepped upon are instead thrown into the sky. Forms of shooting stars and ambiguous constellations are depicted through cutouts in the base of the “canvas,” which in this case, is cardboard. Two silhouettes stand before the composition, gazing straight ahead at the sky above them. The resin poured atop the cardboard darkens the composition to a rich brown - reflecting the setting of the painting’s environs, including any viewer that comes to greet the painting. Darius Yektai was born in Southampton, NY, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home and studio in Sag Harbor. He grew up in a cultural home of art and artists, with his Greek-American Mother, and his Father, Manoucher Yektai, an Iranian who emigrated to the US after the Second World War, was a prominent Hamptons AbEx painter. Darius has picked up some traits from his father, but pushes even further into what is now completely his own. Darius's most recent body of work is bright, colourful, with oil and acrylic paints laid on thick. He's creating sculptural paintings that can't be read from left to right; they need to be examined from surface to base, from section to section, and then overall as an encompassing whole.
  • Creator:
    Darius Yektai (1973, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 58 in (147.32 cm)Width: 106 in (269.24 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Sag Harbor, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: YEK-0073561stDibs: LU389316551622

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