Jimbutsu (Figure)

Details

Saeki Yuzo (1898-1928)
Jimbutsu (Figure)
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 19 5/8in. (60 x 50cm.)
Painted in 1926 or 1927

Certificate on verso by the artist's older brother Saeki Yusei titled Jimbutsu 1926 (Figure, 1926) and sealed; with Tokyo Bijutsu Club certificate no. 99-604, 1999.11.26

Exhibited

Tokyo Central Museum, "Saeki Yuzo ten" (Saeki Yuzo exhibition), 1968.10.25--11.24
"Botsugo 60-nen kinen Saeki Yuzo ten" (Saeki Yuzo memorial exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of his death), shown at the following venues:
Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, 1988.3.8--21
Kasama Nichido Museum, 1988.3.26--5.8
Denki Bunkakaikan, Nagoya, 1988.5.12--6.12

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Tokyo Central Museum, ed., Saeki Yuzo ten (Saeki Yuzo exhibition) (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1968), no. 126.
Kasama Nichido Museum, ed. Botsugo 60-nen kinen Saeki Yuzo ten (Saeki Yuzo memorial exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of his death), exh. cat. (Nagoya: Chunichi Shimbunsha and Kasama: Kasama Nichido Museum, 1988), pl. 71.

Although the certificates by the artist's brother and the Tokyo Bijutsu Club date the painting to 1926 and title it Jimbutsu, both exhibition catalogues above title and date the painting Otoko no kao (Face of a man), 1927.

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