Abstract street scene - Attributes: Signed on lower left. After Kenzo Okada - Media: Oil on board framed - Dimensions metric: 55 by 69 cm (65 by 79 cm framed) - Dimensions imperial: 21 3/4 by 27 1/4 inches (25 1/2 by 31 inches framed) - Artist biography: Kenzo Okada was a Japanese-born American painter. He is best known for his lyrical Abstract Expressionist works made using muted shapes of color, which hover like collages over the canvas ground. Okada's aesthetics were rooted in Zen Buddhism, 17th century Japanese screen painting, and a devotional interest in the natural world, which he used as a springboard for both color and form. Born on September 28, 1902 in Yokohama, Japan, he was interested in art from a young age. The artist studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and later with Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita in Paris-exhibiting in the 1927 Salon d'Automne while he was there. After returning to Japan, Okada continued using an Impressionist style to paint landscapes. It was not until he moved to New York in 1950 and became acquainted with Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko that he produced his abstract works. Okada died on July 25, 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. His works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among other.