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ZENZABURO KOJIMA (1893-1962)

Lot 7
28.11.2023 19:00UTC +08:00
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ID 1093274
Lot 7 | ZENZABURO KOJIMA (1893-1962)
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HKD 500 000 – 800 000
ZENZABURO KOJIMA (1893-1962)

Chrysanthemums

signed in Japanese (lower left); signed, titled and inscribed in Japanese (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

117 x 91 cm. (46 1⁄4 x 35 3⁄4 in.)

Painted in 1942





Provenance

Estate of the Artist

Christie's Hong Kong, 26 May 2012, lot 2015

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

Zenzaburo Kojima Exhibition, exh. cat., Tokyo Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1972 (illustrated, plate 36).

Modern Japanese Art No. 10: Zenzaburo Kojima, Shueisha Publishing, Tokyo, 1975 (illustrated twice, plate 20, p. 116).

Zenzabro Kojima Exhibition, exh. cat., Fukuoka Cultural Centre, Fukuoka, 1976 (illustrated, plate 49).

Asahi Shimbun Special Issue: Zenzaburo Kojima, Asahi Shimbun Publishing, Tokyo, 1982 (illustrated, plate 35).

Zenzaburo Kojima Exhibition, exh. cat., Nara Sogo Art Museum, Nara, 1989 (illustrated, plate 34, p. 43).

Kojima Zenzaburo: Centennial Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, 1993 (illustrated, p. 134; illustrated in black & white, p. 247).

Kojima Zenzaburo: Creator of the Japanese Oil Painting, exh. cat., The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998 (illustrated, p. 88).

Toshio Kojima (ed.), Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Painting Works of Zenzaburo Kojima, Zenzaburo Kojima c/o Gallery Kojima, 2012 (illustrated, plate 553, p. 56).



Exhibited

Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, The Twelfth Dokuritsu Exhibition, March 1942.

Tokyo, Tokyo Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Zenzaburo Kojima Exhibition, 1972.

Fukuoka, Fukuoka Cultural Centre, Zenzabro Kojima Exhibition, 14 November - 5 December 1976.

Nara, Nara Sogo Art Museum, Zenzaburo Kojima Exhibition, 1989.

Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, Kojima Zenzaburo: Centennial Memorial Exhibition, 14 July - 8 August 1993. This exhibition later travelled to Chiba, Chiba Sogo Department Store, 20 August - 12 September 1993; Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki, 18 September - 31 October 1993; Odakyu Museum, 17 November-5 December 1993; Mie, Mie Prefecture Art Museum, 4 January - 6 February 1994.

Tokyo, The Shoto Museum of Art, Kojima Zenzaburo: Creator of the Japanese Oil Painting, 10 October - 23 November 1998.

Tokyo, Fuchu City Museum, Pastoral Splendour: Kojima Zenzaburo, 2 June - 16 July 2007. This exhibition later travelled to Fukuoka, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 22 July - 26 August 2007.



Further details

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Toshio Kojima.
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