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AY-O (b. 1931)

NO. 7 TACTILE RAINBOW ROOM D'O VENONS NOUS QUE SOMMES NOUS O ALLONS NOUS RAINBOW LANDSCAPE RAINBOW NIGHT NUMBER 10

Details
AY-O (b. 1931)

No. 7 Tactile Rainbow Room
D'o Venons nous Que Sommes Nous O Allons Nous
Rainbow landscape
Rainbow Night number 10
The first silkscreen with applied collage elements, signed and dated in pencil in Roman script Ay-O '65 , titled as above, numbered 1/5; the second a poster, signed Ay-O, for an exhibition, Place Gallery, University of Kentucky, Feb. 16--Mar. 2, 1969; the third silkscreen polyptych in eight parts, printed by Okabe Tokuzo, signed and dated in pencil in Roman script Ay-O '73, numbered 33/90, and titled as above, one part with square blind-stamped seal; the fourth lithograph, one half of a diptych printed by Eiichiro Ogino of Kiryu, signed and dated in Roman script Ay-O '66; the fifth silkscreen, 1971, signed and dated in pencil in Roman script Ay-O '71, and numbered artist proof, framed in acrylic box, box damaged
28 x 22in. (72.4 x 57.8cm.); 28 x 20.1/8in. (71.8 x 51cm.); 28 x 21in. (71.2 x 53.3cm.); 15 x 19in. (39.4 x 49.5cm.); 29 x 21in. (73.7 x 55.6cm.) (5)
Exhibited
The first, "Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century," shown at the following venues:
The Saint Louis Art Museum, March 22--May 16, 1983
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 16--August 7, 1983
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, September 10--October 30, 1983
Portland Art Museum, November 30, 1983--January 8, 1984
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The fifth "Contemporary Japanese Prints," August 29-October 22, 1972
Sale room notice
Rainbow Night number 10, has two repaired tears

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The first, Donald Jenkins, Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century (Portland, Ore.: Portland Art Museum, 1983), no.122.

The fifth, George Wakayama, Contemporary Japanese Prints (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, 1972), no. 50.

For another impression of the third and fourth see Ayo hanga zen sakuhinshu/Ay-O (Tokyo: Gyobunsha, 1982), pls. 173-A, 254.