Provenance: Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen. Acquired here by the present owner in 2017. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

Yuichi Hirako has exhibited a number of times at Gallery Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, from where the work was purchased by the present owner. Hirako is represented at a number of internationally renowned museums and has also received several awards in recent years.

In Hirako’s picturesque fairy tale world, human figures are dissolved in an all-encompassing forest and natural cosmos. Here, hierarchies between man and nature are blurred, and new hybrid universes emerge instead. An example of this can also be seen in the recurring character in Hirako's artwork: A human figure with a face resembling a tree, which can also be found in the two works up for auction. Hirako's paintings not only depict the meeting between the forces of nature and human nature, but also depict Western and Eastern views of nature and culture. Hirako examines man's ideals for and ideas of the cultivated and the wild – and lets the viewer meet nature in new ways.