Shozo Shimamoto

Shozo Shimamoto 1928 - 2014 Ohne Titel. 1961. Mixed media on canvas. Wood, plaster, enamel paint, and paper on canvas. Signed in the lower right. Signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse, partly in Japanese, and with a direction arrow. 96 x 73 cm (37.7 x 28.7 in). [EH]. • 1954: Shozo Shimamoto founded “GUTAI” with Jiro Yoshihara. • “GUTAI” is a globally influential group and the most significant postwar artists’ collective in Japan. • One of the artist’s rare works from the early “GUTAI” period on the international auction market. • Shozo Shimamoto breathes life into the materials in his works. • In 1993, Shozo Shimamoto was represented alongside other “GUTAI” members at the Venice Biennale. • Works from Shimamoto’s early career are at, among others, the collection of the Tate Gallery, London, and at the Ashiya City Museum of Art & History in Japan. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Shozo Shimamoto Archive, Naples, dated July 4, 2004. The work is registered with the archive under number 1337. We are grateful to the Shozo Shimamoto Archive for their kind assistance. PROVENANCE: Galerie Sander, Darmstadt (with a label on the stretcher). Private collection, Bavaria (acquired from the above in 1991). Swiss collection (2015, Ketterer Kunst, from the above). LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Auction 429, Post-1War Art / Contemporary Art, Dec. 4–5, 2015, Lot 917 (with color illustration). “There is no other artist who embodies Gutai like Shimamoto” Michel Tapié, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Jiro Yoshihara, Shozo Shimamoto, Gutai Gallery, Osaka 1962 Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 15.46 h +/- 20 min.

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