Lot 158
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi 1889-1953

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Yasuo Kuniyoshi
  • Tired Clown
  • signed Kuniyoshi, u.l.
  • casein on gesso pressed wood
  • 18 by 14 in.
  • (45.7 by 35.6 cm)
  • Executed in 1946.

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York
John Hay Whitney, New York
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1960s

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Retrospective Exhibition, March-May 1948
Tokyo, Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kuniyoshi Memorial Exhibition, March-April 1954 (traveled to Osaka and Nagoya)
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Circus Themes by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, February-March 1955

Literature

"Art News of America: Rattner Wins La Tausca First Prize," ARTnews, January 1947
Lloyd Goodrich, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, New York, 1948