Lot 218
  • 218

Kazuo Shiraga

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Kazuo Shiraga
  • Work
  • signed in Japanese and dated 1980-5; signed and titled on the reverse
  • gouache on paper
  • 32 x 44,5 cm; 12 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.
  • Executed in May 1980.

Provenance

Private Collection, Japan
Sale: SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd, Modern and Contemporary Art Tokyo, 24 January 2015, lot 150
Acquired from the above by the current owner

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the sheet tends more towards cream in the original work. The work was inspected framed. The edges are slightly uneven and dirty and the sheet is slightly ondulated. The paint paint area on the lower right quadrant presents a web of hairline cracks. This work is in very good condition.
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