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Japanese Gutai

"White Blue Green" original painting by Japanese Gutai artist Motonaga
Located in London, GB
Sadamasa Motonaga 1922 - 2011 White Blue Green, 2000 acrylic on canvas 61 x 73 cm 24 x 28 3/4 in In pristine condition, framed in a bespoke white box frame
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dystopian Dreams
Located in BARCELONA, ES
art of the avant-garde Japanese Gutai movement. Her paintings today mostly bear the stylistic features
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Dystopian Dreams
Dystopian Dreams
H 39.38 in W 47.25 in D 0.79 in
Late 20th Century Tachiste Oil & Acrylic on Canvas. 'Gelb-Rot-Blau-Braun'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
(related to American Lyrical Abstraction). COBRA is also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group
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1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
artist and illustrator in Japan; later, he joined the Gutai, a Japanese artist collective known for its
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Cotton, Acrylic, Board

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Mixed media on paper (1962) (abstract painting)
By Senkichiro Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group. The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1963 (abstract)
By Senkichiro Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
(Nagano, Japan) Literature: Gutai Decentering Modernism, Ming Tiampo, University of Chicago Press
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1962 (abstract)
By Senkichiro Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group. The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Sadaharu Horio by Atsuo Yamamoto, Axel Vervoordt and Heinz-Norbert Joks
Located in valatie, NY
Vervoordt on one of Japan's most prominent avant-garde Gutai artists. Sadaharu Horio, born in 1939 in Kobe
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21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Books

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Paper

No Exit
By Enrico Donati
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
, 1957 Gutai 9, Osaka, Japan, 1958 Inter-American Paintings & Prints Biennial, Mexico City, 1958
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

No Exit
No Exit
H 36 in W 32 in D 3 in

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Early 20th Century Enso Zen Circle by Zen Master Shuhan Genpo
Located in Berlin, Berlin
Yoshihara (1905-1972), one of the leading figures of the Japanese post-war movement Gutai, who painted also
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

TREES DEEP SNOW #15
By Tomioka Soichiro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
their Japanese counterparts. For Gutai school artists, the artistic process was chance collaboration
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20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Sous le soleil #4
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sous le soleil #4
H 35.44 in W 27.56 in D 1.58 in
Sous le soleil #3
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sous le soleil #3
Sous le soleil #3
H 35.44 in W 27.56 in D 1.58 in
Sous le soleil #3
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sous le soleil #3
Sous le soleil #3
H 35.44 in W 27.56 in D 1.58 in
Sous le soleil #4
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Oil

Sous le soleil #4
H 35.44 in W 27.56 in D 1.58 in
Takashi Matsutani Vintage Japanese Etching Titled "La Propagation" Framed
By Takashi Matsutani
Located in North Miami, FL
MOMA in NYC. He was from the school of the Gutai movement in Japan that reiterated, don't copy anyone
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Vintage 1960s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Drawings

Materials

Paper, Wood

Emergence #3 Japan - Gutai Movement Abstract Exp - Kuniko June (Steel) Nakamura
By Kuniko Nakamura
Located in Soquel, CA
Emergence #3 Japan - Gutai Movement Abstract Expressionist - Kuniko June (Steel) Nakamura (American
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Abstract in Blue & Black by Kuniko Nakamura Rare Japanese Gutai Movement
By Kuniko Nakamura
Located in Soquel, CA
is signed "Nakamura" on verso ("Emergence #3"). Abstract Expressionist and Gutai Movement artist
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hommage a Poliakoff, Tachiste Abstract Acrylic on Paper.
By Serge Poliakoff
Located in Cotignac, FR
Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group. After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to
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Late 20th Century Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Claire Falkenstein Abstract Assemblage Sculpture Welded Iron Cobalt Glass
By Claire Falkenstein
Located in Surfside, FL
involved with art groups as radical as the Gutai Group in Japan and art autre in Paris and secured a
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art
By Enrico Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1959 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 1958 Gutai 9, Osaka
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting
By Dennis Hare
Located in San Francisco, CA
works from the Japanese Postwar Japanese Gutai movement.
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21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting
Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting
H 17.5 in W 17.75 in D 3.5 in
Kazuo Shiraga - "Passionate Winner", 1988 - silkscreen, framed
By Kazuo Shiraga
Located in EL Waalre, NL
, Amagasaki, Japan – 2008, Amagasaki, Japan) was a Japanese modern artist and prominent member of the Gutai
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Modern Prints

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Paper

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Materials

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