Kazuo Shiraga

Chitsuisei Tsūhien

Auction Closed

October 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An Artist's Perspective: Property from the Collection of Anish Kapoor

Kazuo Shiraga

1924 - 2008

Chitsuisei Tsūhien

signed and dated 1961; signed, titled and dated 1961 on the reverse; titled in Japanese on the reverse

oil on canvas

130.5 by 194.2 by 5.3 cm. 51¼ by 76½ by 2 in.

Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin

Private Collection, The Netherlands

Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

Exh. Cat., Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born Out of Fighting, Toyoshina, Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, 2009, no. 107, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Amagasaki, Amagasaki Cultural Foundation, Kazuo Shiraga: The Water Margin Hero Series. A Heroic World of Action Paintings, 2018, p. 95, no. 71, illustrated