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  • LOT

    851

  • Artist

    TSUTAKA WAICHI ( 1911 - 1995 )

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    oil on canvas framed 
    signed
    titled and signed on the reverse
    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

    18.0×14.0cm
    (7 ⅛ × 5 ½ in.)(F0) 

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  • Date

    2025/10/23

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