$56,700
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Auction: May 11, 2021 12:00:00 PM EDT
Signed bottom right, signed again and dated 1962 verso, oil and mixed media on canvas.
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6cm)Provenance
Willard Gallery, New York, New York.
Private Collection, Maryland.
Note
Genichiro Inokuma was born in 1903 and studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts from 1922-26 under the Western style painter Fujishima Takeji (1865-1943). In 1935 he helped establish the Shin-Seisaku Kyokai, an artists' cultural organization, and between 1938-1940 lived in Paris where he studied under Henri Matisse. From 1945-55 he directed his own art school in Japan, completed numerous mural commissions there, and won the Mainichi Cultural and Artistic Award. After the artist moved to the United States in 1955, his work became largely abstract and he was given many solo exhibitions between 1956-72. The work of Genichiro Inokuma is in many museum collections including the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Honolulu Academy of Art. In 1991 the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture, opened with an exhibition highlighting the artist's 70-year career.