CIRCLE

Details

Jiro Yoshihara (1905 - 1972)
Circle
Sumi ink on paper, mounted on board, signed Y.
Framed and glazed
24.8 x 35.3cm. (paper only), 41.8 x 52.6cm. (including frame)

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Lot Essay

Jiro Yoshihara was the older and acknowledged leader of the Gutai group. He worked in surrealist and abstract styles before turning, in his final years, to the repeated depiction of circles. He produced both paintings and lithographic prints of the form (see lots 147-149). For a painting in the collection of the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, go to http:/www.fukuokaart- museum.jp/english/ec/html/ec02/02/yoshihara.htm

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