KAZUO SHIRAGA (1924-2008)

Lot 20
18.05.2023 01:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 000 000
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ID 949329
Lot 20 | KAZUO SHIRAGA (1924-2008)
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$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
KAZUO SHIRAGA (1924-2008)

Hoshōkai (Lop Nur)

signed in Japanese (lower right); signed again in Japanese, titled and dated 'Nov 1988 Hoshōkai' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

71 1/8 x 89 3/8 in. (181 x 227 cm.)

Painted in 1988.





Provenance

Private collection, Japan

Axel Vervoordt Co., Antwerp

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2012



Literature

B. Davis, "Ben Davis On Why Kazuo Shiraga Was One of the World’s Most Radical Painters and Still Is", Artnet News, 20 February 2015 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Tokyo Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga Solo Exhibition, January 1990, n.p. (illustrated).

Toyoshina, Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born out of Fighting, April-June 2009, p. 159 (illustrated).

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga, February-April 2015, pp. 74-77 and 103 (illustrated).
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