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    10 May 2000

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    • Saeki Yuzo (1898-1928)
    Lot 7

    Saeki Yuzo (1898-1928)

    Garage (Jidoshagoya)

    Price realised

    USD 721,000

    Estimate

    USD 300,000 - USD 400,000

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    Saeki Yuzo (1898-1928)
    Garage (Jidoshagoya)
    Oil on canvas
    20.7/8 x 28¾in. (53 x 73cm.)
    Painted circa 1925
    With Tokyo Bijutsu Club certificate no. 000-040, 2000.1.25

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    Literature and exhibited

    Exhibited

    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, "Daijusankai Nika bijutsu tenrankai" (13th Nika art exhibition), 1926, autumn
    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, "Daiyonkai 1930-nen Kyokai ten" (4th 1930 Association exhibition), 1929
    Tokyo Central Museum, "Saeki Yuzo ten" (Saeki Yuzo exhibition), 1968.10.25--11.24
    Kagawa Prefecture Bunka Kaikan, "Saeki Yuzo ten," 1973.11.1--25
    "Botsugo 50-nen kinen Saeki Yuzo ten/Yuzo Saeki Exhibition--50th Year Posthumous Exhibition," shown at the following venues:
    National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1978.6.6--7.9
    National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1978.7.22--9.3
    Nagoya City Museum, 1978.9.9--24
    Fukuoka Prefecture Bunka Kaikan, 1978.10.7--22
    "Saeki Yuzo Buramanku ten" (Saeki Yuzo and Vlaminck exhibition), shown at the following venues:
    Tokyu Department Store, Shibuya, Tokyo, 1980.7.18--8.6
    Hanshin Department Store, Umeda, Osaka, 1980.8.21--9.2


    Lot Essay

    PUBLISHED:
    Daijusankai Nika bijutsu tenrankai (13th Nika art exhibition) (Tokyo: Nika-kai, 1926), cat. no. 236.
    1930-nen Sosho (1) gashu Saeki Yuzo (1930-series (1) collected paintings of Saeki Yuzo) (Tokyo: 1930-Kyokai, 1929), cat. no. 53. Saeki Yuzo zengashu (Complete works of Saeki Yuzo) (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1968), pl. 17.
    Tokyo Central Museum, ed., Saeki Yuzo ten (Saeki Yuzo exhibition), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1968), no. 44.
    Kagawa Prefecture Bunka Kaikan, ed., Saeki Yuzo ten (Saeki Yuzo exhibition), exh. cat. (Kagawa: Shikoku Shimbunsha, 1973), no. 26.
    Takumi Hideo, ed., Saeki Yuzo, vol. 23 of Nihon no meiga (Masterpieces of Japanese painting) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1975), pl. 14 and fig. p. 112.
    National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Miki Tamon, Asano Toru, Ichikawa Masanori and Ozaki Masaaki, eds., Botsugo 50-nen kinen Saeki Yuzo ten/Yuzo Saeki Exhibition--50th Year Posthumous Exhibition (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1978), no. 69.
    Saeki Yuzo zengashu (Complete works of Saeki Yuzo) (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1979), pl. 101.
    Yamao Shigeaki and Takumi Hideo, eds., Saeki Yuzo Buramanku ten (Saeki Yuzo and Vlaminck exhibition) (Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1980), no. 14.


    Shortly after his return from France, Saeki was awarded a prize for Garage in the 13th Nika art exhibition in the fall of 1926.

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