Inoue Yuichi Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1916 - d. 1985

The 1916 in Tokyo born Inoue Yuichi studied calligraphy under Sokyu Ueda (1899-1986). 1951 followed the first individual exhibition of his calligraphic works in his home city and shortly afterwards he became a co-founder of the Calligraphy society (Bokujin-kai). 1959 he was represented in documenta 2 in Kassel. Today he belongs to the most important modern and avantgarde calligraphy artists in Japan. The representatives of the movement freed the calligraphy from its textual nature and created characters as pure shape.