87

TOMIE OHTAKE Brazililan-Japanese 1913-2015 Acrylic

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD
TOMIE OHTAKE Brazililan-Japanese 1913-2015 Acrylic
ABSENTEE-ONLY BIDDING AVAILABLE. HIGHEST BIDS WILL BE TAKEN TO LIVE AUCTION FLOOR.

888 Auctions endeavors to accurately describe the items being sold, but all property offered for sale is strictly as is, where is, and with all faults. All representations or statements made by 888 Auctions and its representatives, or in the catalogue or other publication or report, as to the correctness of description, genuineness, attribution, provenance, or period of the Lot, are statements of opinion only.
Acrylic on paper, framed. Featuring an abstract expressionist composition. Signed and attr. Tomie Oktake (Brazilian-Japanese, 1913-2015) on the lower right corner. 21.5 x 17 cm (8.5 x 6.7 inches), frame: 34 x 28 cm (13.4 x 11 inches). Tommie Ohtake was a Japanese naturalized Brazilian artist. Her work includes paintings, prints and sculptures. She was one of the main representatives of informal abstractionism in Brazil. In 1936, when she was twenty-three years old, Ohtake traveled to Brazil to visit a brother but could not return due to World War II.[2] Ohtake settled herself in São Paulo with her husband and started painting in 1951, after a visit to the studio of the painter Keisuke Sugano. She had her first exhibition in 1957, in the Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna and in 1961 she participated in the São Paulo Biennale. In 1972 she participated in the Prints section of the Venice Biennale and in 1978 of the Tokyo Biennale. She created dozens of public space sculptures from the late eighties; her work has been featured in several cities in Brazil, but especially in the state of São Paulo. In 1988 Ohtake was awarded the Order of Rio Branco by the public sculpture commemorating the 80th anniversary of Japanese immigration in São Paulo, and in 2006 she was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate