ID 1548923
Lot 15 | KAZUO SHIRAGA (1924-2008)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
Yagenko
signed in Japanese (lower left); signed, titled and dated in Japanese (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
76 ¼ x 101 ¾in. (193.6 x 258.5 cm.)
Painted in 1989
Provenance
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.
Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 20 September 2007, lot 57.
Private Collection, Europe.
Anon. sale, Christie’s Paris, 4 June 2014, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born Out of Fighting, exh. cat., Toyoshina, Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, 2009, no. 317 (illustrated in colour, p. 161).
| Artist: | Kazuo Shiraga (1924 - 2008) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Kazuo Shiraga (1924 - 2008) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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