Toshimitsu Imai Screen Print on Paper

Item Details

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

An artist’s proof screen print by abstract painter Toshimitsu Imai, executed in 1981. Royal blue and black strokes of color run throughout the composition in a bold, gestural manner. Around the abstract plane is French Text reading: “tout rouge je les ai mis dans un panier, je les perai se cher hout, qu’ie s’ena passe un collier, j’ai namasse des mots tout noir.”

Toshimitsu Imai was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928. He studied at the Tokyo State Art Academy. In 1952 he exhibited at the Shinseisaku Salon. He later traveled to Paris to study where he met French critic Michel Tapié (1909-1987). Tapié was a large influencer of the abstract tachisme movement in France and encouraged Imai into a more abstract style. He exhibited at the São Paulo Biennale , the Venice Biennale, the Fifth Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art in Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art. In his later works, he began incorporating Japanese characters with symbolic and cultural elements into his paintings. Today, his work can be found at the Ohara Museum of Art Japan, Japan National Museum of Art Osaka, and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo.

Condition

- to fair; significant discoloration to one end; small tears, rips and bends to the edges throughout; has been stored rolled up.

Dimensions

- has been stored rolled up.

Item #

17DCC306-409