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Kumi Sugai (1919-1996), Composition, Japan/France, 1964

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:550.00 EUR Estimated At:880.00 - 1,100.00 EUR
Kumi Sugai (1919-1996), Composition, Japan/France, 1964
The present lithographic depicting an abstract composition is a work by Kumi Sugai, and dates from 1964. It depicts four vertically lined-up circular shapes in gray with black contour-lines that were executed with a strong brush stroke. The circles are placed in front of a black square. Since the 1950s, Sugai translated calligraphic elements into abstract forms. From 1962, he frequently varied lined-up, geometric shapes such as circles, triangles and squares.



The sheet is dated and signed in pencil lower right, ‘64 Sugai’, and numbered I/3.

The print is in good overall condition with faint yellowing of the paper due to age, a crease on the lower left and light pressure marks. The sheet size is 76.5 x 56.5 cm.

Kumi Sugai

Kumi Sugai was born in 1919 in Kobe, Japan, and is one of the most important proponents of the post-war period in modern Japanese art and abstract painting. In the late 1940s, Sugai began increasingly to deal with the modern Western painting. He was fascinated especially by works of Jackson Pollock, Paul Klee, Joan Miró and Max Ernst. In 1952, he moved to Paris, began to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and was working as a painter and sculptor in the same year. He received international attention in the 1950s and took part at the documenta II (1959) and the documenta III (1964) in Kassel. In 1962, he was also the winner of the Venice Biennale. Numerous other international exhibitions and awards followed.
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