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TSUTAKA WAICHI ( 1911 - 1995 )
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oil on canvas framed Date 1954
signed and dated
Provenance: Private Collection, Kanto Region
TSUTAKA WAICHI, Japanese Western-style painter and poet. His concise abstract expression is highly regarded both in Japan and abroad. He painted figurative paintings until early 1956, later he changed to abstract paintings with a distinctive poetic sentiment. In 1946, he exhibited his work at the Behavioral Arts Society Exhibition. In 1960, he exhibited at the New York Guggenheim Prize Art Exhibition. Since 1969, he had been a professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Osaka University of Arts, the following year he became an emeritus professor.
Major Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; British Museum; The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
72.0×90.5cm
(28 ⅜ × 35 ⅝ in.) (F30)
2025/04/19
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