Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

98 Makiko Nakamura (b. ) before A sweeT rAin - loVers (2009) signed, titled and dated ‘09 on reverse oil on canvas 80 x 80cm (31.5 x 31.5in) Provenance: Private Collection Japanese artist Nakamura travelled to Paris and the US before her interest in Samuel Beckett led her to Dublin. Dis- tinguished by a highly burnished reflective surface, her enigmatic abstract paintings rely on meditative repetition and erasure of grid-like structures; works to get lost in. €2,000-4,000 (£1,739-3,478)