Lot 4: KAZUO SHIRAGA | Tentaisei Soushiko (The Winged Tiger)

oil on canvas

182 x 273 cm; 71  5/8  x 107  1/2  in.

oil on canvas

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Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Kagawa, Takamatsu Art Museum; Yawata, Arts and Crafts Museum; Nagasaki, Nagasaki university;  4^th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, 10 May - 27 September 1960 
Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Intuiciones y Realizaciones Formales, 14 August – 4 September 1964; catalogue
Toulouse, Musée d'Art Moderne – Réfectoire des Jacobins, Kazuo Shiraga, 4 June – 26 September 1993; catalogue, p. 57, no. 12
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Gutaï, 4 May - 27 June 1999, p. 109, illustrated in colour
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, Artempo. Where Time Becomes Art, 9 June - 5 November 2007; catalogue, p. 78, illustrated in colour
Wijnegem, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga – Inaugural Exhibition Kanaal, 8 March - 13 May 2017

Kazuo Shiraga, exhibition catalogue at Hyogo Prefectural Museum
of Modern Art, Kobe, 2001, p. 103, illustrated
Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born Out of Fighting, exhibition catalogue at
Toyoshina, Azumino Municipal Museum of Art, Amagazaki Cultural
Center, Yokosuka Museum of Art, 2009, no. 70, illustrated in colour
Axel Vervoordt. Living with Light, 2013, p. 164, illustrated in colour

Galerie Rodolphe Stadler, Paris
Collection Pinto, Geneva
Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2004)