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MOTONAGA SADAMASA Red Circle in the Middle

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    1528

  • Artist

    MOTONAGA SADAMASA ( 1922 - 2011 )

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    acrylic on canvas framed Date 1983
    signed and dated
    Provenance: Collection of a hospital in Tokyo
    Publication: "Sadamasa Motonaga Works 1955-1989" P.Ⅰ-91, Gallery Yamaki and Aravel Co., Ltd., 1989
    MOTONAGA SADAMASA, a Japanese picture book author and avant-garde artist. He held solo exhibitions at Tokyo Gallery and Jackson-Moyer Gallery in New York in 1961 and participated in the "New Japanese Painting and Sculpture" exhibition at MoMA in 1965. His work was featured in the 1986 "Japon des Avant-Gardes" exhibition at the Pompidou Center. In 2015, one of his works was auctioned at Sotheby's for nearly 100 million yen. He received awards at the 6th, 7th, and 10th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibitions, the 1983 Art Culture Promotion Association Award, the Japan Art Grand Prize, and the Seoul International Print Biennale.
    Major collections: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka; Mie Prefectural Art Museum
    92.0×182.0cm
    (36 ⅕ × 71 ⅔ in.) (M120) 

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  • Date

    2025/04/19

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MOTONAGA SADAMASA Red Circle in the Middle

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