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SHINODA TOKO Study

  • LOT

    862

  • Artist

    SHINODA TOKO ( 1913 - 2021 )

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    ink on Japanese paper panel framed 1993
    signed
    accompanied by a certificate of Registration issued by the Toko Shinoda Appraisal Committee 

    Provenance: Private Collection, Kanto Region
    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. In 1954, participated in the "Japanese Modern Calligraphy Exhibition" held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In 1968, held a solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York. In 1996, became the first Japanese artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Singapore National Museum of Modern Art. In 2012, held a solo exhibition at The Tolman Collection in New York.
    Major Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Gifu; British Museum; The Met; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

    85.0×85.0cm
    (33 ½ × 33 ½ in.) 

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  • Date

    2025/10/23

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SHINODA TOKO Study

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