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SHINODA TOKO Poem

  • LOT

    100

  • Artist

    SHINODA TOKO ( 1913 - 2021 )

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  • Result

    Closed Auctions

  • Details

    ink on paper framed 
    stamped signature
    SHINODA TOKO, Japanese artist, printmaker, and essayist. Her cousin is the film director Masahiro Shinoda. Her nephew is the architect Shigeru Wakayama, and since 1950 she has been associated with artists of avant-garde calligraphy at the Calligraphy Art Institute. 1956, she moved to the U.S. to work in New York at the height of abstract expressionist painting. In 1960, she began lithographs, and died in 2021 at the age of 107. Exhibitions: 1954 "Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy" at MoMA, New York, USA; 1968 solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA; 1996 solo exhibition "TOKO SHINODA - VISUAL POETRY" at National Museum of Modern Art, Singapore, Singapore. First solo exhibition by a Japanese artist, 2012 Solo exhibition "Guided by the Brush" at The Tolman Collection, New York. Major Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Gifu; British Museum; The Met; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
    23.5×35.7cm 

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  • Date

    2023/10/19

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SHINODA TOKO Poem

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