Lot Essay
The nephew of Domoto Insho (1891-1975), Domoto Hisao was born in Kyoto and first studied painting in 1942 at the high school annex of Kyoto's School of Fine Arts. He completed his formal education in 1949 and became a member of the Nitten, winning that group's grand prize for painting in 1951 and 1953. In 1952 he traveled with his uncle through Europe, and he lived in Paris from 1954-65. His work was included in the Salon de Mai exhibition of 1956, and in 1957 he was in an exhibition organized by the French art critic Michael Tapie, L'art mondial contemporain a Tokyo. His first one-man show was held in Paris in 1957 at the Galerie Stadler.
Domoto was involved with the Informel movement, a group of European artists aligned philoshophically with the Gutai in Japan. These artists believed that the substance and physicality of paint conveyed a work's intrinsic energy and meaning. In 1958 Domoto was in an exhibition of Informel and Gutai artists called The International Art of a New Era: USA, Japan, Europe at the Osaka International Art Festival and he collaborated on a special issue of the Gutai review entitled "L'Aventure Informelle". Domoto was represented in The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture, a group exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York that traveled in the United States from 1965-67.
From 1950-1970 Domoto had many one-man exhibitions in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery, in Tokyo at the Minami Gallery, and at Galerie Stadler in Paris. A solo exhibition, Hisao Domoto, took place at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1979 and, in 1987, a restrospective exhibition of his work was held at Tokyo's Ikebukuro Seibu Museum.
A painting similar to the one offered here, entitled Ensemble binaire and dated 1962 is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Hisao Domoto, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, January - March 1979. A Domoto Hisao oil painting dated 1965, Solution de Continuite was Sold in these Rooms, lot 171, in a sale of Japanese Modern and Contemprary Art on October 25, 1994, sale no. 8042.
Domoto was involved with the Informel movement, a group of European artists aligned philoshophically with the Gutai in Japan. These artists believed that the substance and physicality of paint conveyed a work's intrinsic energy and meaning. In 1958 Domoto was in an exhibition of Informel and Gutai artists called The International Art of a New Era: USA, Japan, Europe at the Osaka International Art Festival and he collaborated on a special issue of the Gutai review entitled "L'Aventure Informelle". Domoto was represented in The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture, a group exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York that traveled in the United States from 1965-67.
From 1950-1970 Domoto had many one-man exhibitions in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery, in Tokyo at the Minami Gallery, and at Galerie Stadler in Paris. A solo exhibition, Hisao Domoto, took place at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1979 and, in 1987, a restrospective exhibition of his work was held at Tokyo's Ikebukuro Seibu Museum.
A painting similar to the one offered here, entitled Ensemble binaire and dated 1962 is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Hisao Domoto, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, January - March 1979. A Domoto Hisao oil painting dated 1965, Solution de Continuite was Sold in these Rooms, lot 171, in a sale of Japanese Modern and Contemprary Art on October 25, 1994, sale no. 8042.