MAEDA JOSAKU (B. 1926)

NINGEN SEIZA (CONSTELLATION HUMAIN [ROUND])

Details

MAEDA JOSAKU (B. 1926)
ningen seiza (constellation humain [round])
Signed in Japanese Josaku, signed and dated in English J. Maeda. 62, signed on reverse in Japanese Maeda Josaku, numbered, signed and dated No 170 Josaku Maeda Oct 1962 à Paris, titled Constellation humain (round) and in Japanese Ningen seiza, with dimensions 130cm x 97cm; oil and collage on canvas, framed
51¾ x 38 3/16in. (130 x 97cm.)
With three labels attached to reverse from the Tokyo Gallery, Japan

Provenance

Tokyo Gallery, Japan

Further details

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Lot Essay

In Paris from 1958 until 1963 on a scholarship provided by the Free Cultural Association, Maeda Josaku began work on a series of paintings based on Indian mandalas. In 1963, a year after he painted the present work, Maeda had two solo exhibitions in Tokyo at the Gallery Aoki and the Tokyo Gallery and he won the grand prize at the Japan International Art Exhibition. His travels to India, Iran, and Iraq in the early 1970s, a full decade after the Mandala series commenced, confirm his continuing fascination with the richness of design in these countries.

Another painting by Maeda Josaku, Ningen kukan (9), was sold in these Rooms in Contemporary Japanese Art from the Estate of Blanchette H. Rockefeller, lot 47, April 27, 1994.