Lot 4: Noboru Sawai "Northern Tribe" etching edition 10/75

Name: Noboru Sawai "Northern Tribe" etching edition 10/75
Brand: 4th Meridian Fine Art
SKU: f6447208f3
Price: 250 CAD

Est: $400 CAD - $600 CADSold:

4th Meridian Fine ArtPenticton, BC, CAOctober 03, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Noboru Sawai, (Japanese Canadian) 1931 - 2016, is most remembered for his erotic multi-media prints. However, he was also an influential professor, who taught a generation of artists, from Cape Dorset to Israel, the process of printmaking. Noboru Sawai was born on Feb. 18, 1931 in Takamatsu, Japan and spent his early childhood years in and around his birthplace. He learned English while working as a cook’s assistant at the U.S. military headquarters. He moved to the United States to study at the Lutheran Bible Institute, however, shortly after his arrival, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent the next nine years at a TB hospital in San Antonio, Texas. In 1962, married his first wife Gloria Sawai. Shortly after, they moved to Minneapolis to start a family and Sawai resumed his studies. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Augsburg College in 1966, and completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota, in 1969. In 1971, they returned to Japan so Sawai could study traditional woodblock printmaking in Tokyo. Later that year they relocated to Canada, with Sawai teaching printmaking and drawing in the University of Calgary’s Art Department. He held that position for the next 22 years. Upon retirement in 1993, Sawai relocated to Vancouver and set up his own printmaking studio where he developed his technique of combining the relief printing of woodblocks with the intaglio techniques of printing from etched copper plates. He also dedicated time to his interest in paper-making, and made several trips back to Japan to learn about making his own handmade paper, with the generous support of the Kashiki paper company in Kochi, Japan. Sawai was internationally known for his erotic imagery, however he considered himself a deeply philosophical and contradictory person. Friends described him as eccentric and outgoing. Noboru Sawai died on April 23, 2016 at the age of 85 in Vancouver.

Dimensions

17.5" x 13.5"; image 8" x 12"

Artist or Maker

Noboru Sawai

Condition Report

excellent condition

Provenance

Private collection, Kamloops, BC. Purchased at the Kamloops Art Gallery auction; artwork donated to KAG by the artist.

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Auction Details

Early Fall Estate Art Auction

4th Meridian Fine Art

October 03, 2021, 04:00 PM PST

104-1475 Fairview Rd, Penticton, BC, V2A 7W5, CA

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