SHINODA TOKO Drawing

• LOT

  1865

• Artist

  SHINODA TOKO ( 1913 - 2021 )

• Estimate

  1,500,000 - 2,500,000 65,217 - 108,696 75,000 - 125,000 300,000 - 500,000 9,375 - 15,625

  JPY RMB HKD TWD USD

• Result

  Members only

• Details

  ink on paper　framed　2005
  signed
  
  SHINODA TOKO was a Japanese artist who developed a distinctive form of abstract expression in sumi ink, extending beyond the meanings and conventions of traditional calligraphy. After the Second World War, she gradually moved away from written characters themselves, focusing instead on the lines and tonal qualities generated through the techniques of calligraphy and exploring an independent visual language. Her journey to the United States in 1956 marked a major turning point in her practice. While based in New York and exposed to contemporary Western abstraction, she established a pure form of abstraction based on taut, powerful lines and planes. After returning to Japan, she continued to explore the relationship between line and empty space while making use of the tonal variations, bleeding, and dry-brush effects of sumi ink, using the medium to evoke the expansiveness of space and the passage of time. In works incorporating gold and silver, she further developed an expression that evokes changes in light and the passage of time.
  
  31.0×46.0cm
  (12 ¼ × 18 ⅛ in.)　

• Organizer

  Jo's Auction

• Auction

  Jo’s Auction Autumn Auction of Art Works 2026

• Catalog

  Contemporary Art/Modern&Post-War Art

• Date

  2026/10/21