Manoucher Yektai’s survey traces his evolution from Surrealist-inspired abstractions to impastoed portraits, still lifes, and landscapes made between 1948–1969. Influenced by Paris training, Pollock’s methods, and Beaux-Arts roots, Yektai pushed paint into sculptural forms while probing gesture, color, and space. His works shift from dense impasto to sparse white expanses, revealing a restless vision that defied conventions of portraiture and representation.
