Kenzo Okada Serigraph "Morning Glory", 1975

Item Details

Kenzo Okada (New York/Japan, 1902 – 1982)
Morning Glory, 1975
Serigraph on paper
Signed to lower right margin
Numbered 150/175
Published by Pace Editions Inc., New York
Labels to verso with artist and publisher information

Kenzo Okada, born in 1902 into a wealthy family in Japan, and despite his parents misgivings, studied at Tokyo Fine Arts University, where he learned traditional painting. He went on to study under Tsuguji Fujita in Paris in 1924, returning to Japan in 1927 to embark on his realist painting career. After his immigration to New York in 1950, Okada was introduced to the Abstract Expressionist movement and his worked underwent a transformation. He is credited with combining subtle Japanese aesthetics and Western style into his unique expression of abstract art, bringing him immense success during his lifetime. Okada’s work were exhibited at leading institutions, and reside in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.

Condition

- toning; water damage to mat to upper left corner; light scattered accretion; scratches to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; image measures 26.5" W x 23.5" H.

Item #

ITMG421350