Auction on
04 June 2023 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Château d'Artigny, 92, rue de Monts - 37250 Montbazon
This 1962 oil on canvas by the Gutai master Kazuo Shiraga, which has never come up for sale before, is a performance painting, a hand-to-hand combat with color.
Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), T. 34 (No. 50), signed oil on canvas dated "1962", 80 x 116 cm/31.49 x 45.66 in. Estimate: €500,000/800,000
Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), T. 34 (No. 50), signed oil on canvas dated "1962", 80 x 116 cm/31.49 x 45.66 in. Estimate: €500,000/800,000
The gaze cannot find a focal point in this work where flat colors are suddenly cut off as if torn by an accumulation of matter. The paint swirls and twists in wild bursts, seemingly driven by the violence and raw power that put it on the canvas. "I want to paint as if I were fighting on a battlefield…
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