Lot 13: KAZUO SHIRAGA | Sekito

oil on canvas 

194 x 130,5 cm; 76  3/8  x 51  3/8  in.

oil on canvas 

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Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga Solo Exhibition, 12 May - 24 May 1980
Toyama, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan : Oil Painting, 3 November - 15 December 1982
Amagasaki, Amagasaki Cultural Center,   5^th selected master pieces for 5^th Anniversary of Amagasaki Arts & Culture Association, 30 November – 15 December 1985
Berlin, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Kazuo Shiraga, 1992; catalogue, p. 25, illustrated in colour

Kazuo Shiraga, exhibition catalogue at Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 2 June - 22 July 2001, p. 124, illustrated
Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born Out of Fighting, exhibition catalogue at Tokyoshina, Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, 25 April - 14 June 2009; Amagasaki, Amagasaki Cultural Center, 18 July - 6 September 2009; Yokosuka, Yokosuka Museum of Art, 31 October - 27 December 2009; Hekinan, Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fuji Musuem of Contemporary Art, 2010, np., no. 264, illustrated in colour

Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner