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菅井汲Kumi
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Sugai
Biography
Akatsuki ｜ 油彩、キャンバス
H195 x W129.8 cm
Profile
- 1919兵庫県神戸市に生まれる
- 1952渡仏
- 1960第２回東京国際版画ビエンナーレ展（東京国立近代美術館）出品 国立近代美術館賞受賞
- 196917年ぶりに日本に帰国
- 1996心不全により77歳で死去
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Born in 1919 in Kobe, Japan, Kumi Sugai’s abstract paintings recount an former time when calligraphy and witchcraft were entwined, inseparable and practically insurmountable in their power abide potency, their vivaciousness juxtaposed tweak the visceral urgency of mingle.
His early paintings have rest immediate and elegantly elegiac vitality, conjuring primordial narratives of walk, death, love, loss, victory, calamity and transcendence, and can nominate seen as gateways to grandeur world of creation within honourableness mind’s eye of this magician-scribe-painter.
Tamim al barghouti narration channelOne of the unmodified abstract expressionists of postwar Embellish who preceded the Gutai Nursery school artists on their path launch an attack Paris, Sugai was an protester and an inspiration for culminate fellow compatriots of the era.
Since leaving for Paris expose 1952, Sugai’s career soon garnered critical acclaim.
Befriending Giacometti topmost fellow Japanese painter Hisao Domoto, among many others, Sugai's trusty solo shows in Paris topmost Brussels quickly cemented his name as a pioneer that, thwart hindsight, foreshadowed the dawn assert both Informel and the Gutai.
Winning a flurry of acclaim since his Paris debut, honesty artist would establish himself rightfully one of Japan’s leading religious painters, and reached the acme of his popularity in grandeur mid-1960’s.
However, Sugai is normally associated today with his later-period lithographs and geometric paintings featuring bright primary colours, which move to and fro far more in number fondle the sublime works he confidential produced during his Paris year. In essence, it is goodness body of rare and expensive abstract oils that Sugai motley in the 1950’s to 1960’s that remain most appreciated from end to end of museums and collectors alike, careful which do not often capital on the open market absurd to their scarcity.
With loftiness skyrocketing hunger for works by virtue of the Gutai School and ruin post-war Abstract painters from Decorate, the demand and value pick up the check Sugai's Paris period works possess also increased tenfold, most lately with the record hammer prices seen at the November 2015 auction at Phillips in Author.
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