MOTONAGA SADAMASA Ghost Leg

• LOT

  1399

• Artist

  MOTONAGA SADAMASA ( 1922 - 2011 )

• Estimate

  50,000 - 100,000 2,604 - 5,208 2,994 - 5,988 11,905 - 23,810 385 - 769

  JPY RMB HKD TWD USD

• Result

  Closed Auctions

• Details

  screen print　framed　Date 1988
  numbered and signed
  ED.150
  Provenance: Gallery Sakura,Nagoya
  SADAMASA MOTONAGA, Japanese picture book artist and avant-garde artist. His wife is Etsuko Nakatsuji, a plastic artist. Taking the unknown nature as his creative source, he created experimental works expressing natural phenomena by using novel materials, such as hanging colored water in plastic bags and performances using smoke. Later, inspired by the tarashikomi technique of Japanese-style painting, she attracted attention with her fluid works in which paints were poured on canvas. In 1959, he exhibited his work at the Premio Lissone Exhibition (Italy), where he won a prize, and in 1961 had solo exhibitions at Tokyo Gallery and Jackson Mercer Gallery (New York). In 1965, he participated in the "New Japanese Paintings and Sculpture" exhibition at MoMA, New York, U.S.A. In 1966, he was awarded a prize for his work at the "Premio Lissone" exhibition in Italy. He received awards at the 6th, 7th, and 10th Contemporary Art Exhibitions of Japan, the 1983 Art and Culture Promotion Association Award, the Japan Art Grand Prize, and the Grand Prix at the Seoul International Print Exhibition; exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1986 "Japan in the Avant-Garde"; presented "Gutai" at the MOMA and Guggenheim Museum In 2013, attracting a great deal of attention both in Japan and abroad, and in 2015, a painting measuring less than one meter sold for nearly 100 million yen at Sotheby's. Major Collections: The Museum of Modern Art New York, Dallas Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, The National Museum of Art (Osaka), The National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto), Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Hyogo, Japan)
  49.2×66.4cm　

• Organizer

  Jo's Auction

• Auction

  Jo’s Auction Tenth Anniversary Spring Auction of Art Works 2023

• Catalog

  Contemporary Art/Modern&Post-War Art

• Date

  2023/04/21