LOT DETAILS

Materials:

enamel paint on canvas fixed on board

Measurements:

72.05 in. (183.00 cm.) (height) by 90.94 in. (231.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

The 17th Gutai Group Exhibition, Japan, 1966. Genoa, Itay, Villa Croce Museum, Shozo Shimamoto - Samurai, Acrobat of the Sight, 13 November 2008 - 8 March 2009. Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Gutai - Painting with Time and Space, 23 October 2010 - 20 February 2011. Reggio Emilia, Italy, Palazzo Magnani Foundation, Shozo Shimamoto - Works 1950-2011 East and West, 24 September 2011 - 8 January 2012.

Literature:

Gutai Document 1954-1972, Ashiya Shiritsu Bijutsu Hakubutsukan, Japan, 1993 (illustrated in black & white, pp. 204 & 208). Oliva, Achille Bonito, Shimamoto Shozo, Samurai, acrobata dello sguardo 1950-2008, Exh. cat. (Exhibition at Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce Museo, Genoa; organized by ABC-ARTE), Skira, Milan, Italy, 2008 (illustrated, p. 75). Shozo Shimamoto: Opere 1950-2011 Oriente e Occidente / Works 1950-2011 East and West, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torin, Italy, 2011 (illustrated, unpaged).

Provenance:

Private Collection, Europe Private Collection, Asia This work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by Associazione Shozo Shimamoto (Archive ID 115)