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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 8, 2017 | Bonhams | London | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 20 | $****** - ****** | Séi 1991 |
paintings
117 x 91 cm (46.06 x 35.83 in)
oil on canvas
signed in Japanese; signed, titled and dated 1991 in English and in Japanese on the reverse
Galerie Stadler, Paris
Private Collection, Germany
Private Collection, Austria
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
his work outside Japan in 1959 in a group exhibition entitled Métamorphisme. Stadler had the gift of identifying artists that would make profound developments to the history of art, whilst nurturing their talents and facilitating their growth, and the two worked together for decades until the gallery closed in the mid-Nineties.
Shoichi Hirai Ed., Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born Out of Fighting, Kyoto 2009, n.p., no. 341, illustrated in colour
Séi↵1991↵signed in Japanese; signed, titled and dated 1991 in English and in Japanese on the reverse↵oil on canvas↵117 by 91 cm.↵46 1/16 by 35 13/16 in.
