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Japanese Gutai

Dystopian Dreams: Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, 100x120 cm, 2010-Now
Dystopian Dreams: Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, 100x120 cm, 2010-Now

Dystopian Dreams: Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, 100x120 cm, 2010-Now

Located in BARCELONA, ES

She draws her inspiration often from nature and from Eastern art, such as the art of the avant-garde Japanese Gutai movement. Her paintings today mostly bear the stylistic features o...

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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Unique Contemporary Abstract Screen Painting inspiration from the Gutai art
Unique Contemporary Abstract Screen Painting inspiration from the Gutai art

Unique Contemporary Abstract Screen Painting inspiration from the Gutai art

Located in Fukuoka, JP

Unique Contemporary Abstract Screen Painting A one-of-a-kind contemporary abstract painting executed on a folding screen, drawing bold inspiration from the pioneering Gutai art mov...

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20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Acrylic, Wood, Paper

Gelb-Rot-Blau-Braun Tachiste Oil on Canvas, Signed, 20th Century
Gelb-Rot-Blau-Braun Tachiste Oil on Canvas, Signed, 20th Century

Gelb-Rot-Blau-Braun Tachiste Oil on Canvas, Signed, 20th Century

Located in Cotignac, FR

Arlandis travelled widely and during one of his 14 visits to Japan he met and worked with Kazuo Shirage and his wife Fujiko, grand masters of the Gutai movement.

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1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1963 (abstract)
Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1963 (abstract)

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1963 (abstract)

By Senkichiro Nasaka

Located in Hong Kong, HK

Collection: Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Hyogo, Japan), The Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan), Karuizawa New Art Museum (Nagano, Japan) Literature: Gutai Decentering M...

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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1962 (abstract)
Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1962 (abstract)

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1962 (abstract)

By Senkichiro Nasaka

Located in Hong Kong, HK

Collection: Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Hyogo, Japan), The Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan), Karuizawa New Art Museum (Nagano, Japan) Literature: Gutai Decentering M...

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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Mixed media on paper (1962) (abstract painting)
Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Mixed media on paper (1962) (abstract painting)

Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Mixed media on paper (1962) (abstract painting)

By Senkichiro Nasaka

Located in Hong Kong, HK

Collection: Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Hyogo, Japan), The Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan), Karuizawa New Art Museum (Nagano, Japan) Literature: Gutai Decentering M...

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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art
Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art

Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art

By Enrico Donati

Located in Surfside, FL

Paul 1959 Michigan State University 1959 De Cordova & Dana Museum, Massachusetts 1959 American Federation of Arts, New York 1959 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1959 Rhode ...

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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

No Exit
No Exit

No Exit

By Enrico Donati

Located in Saratoga Springs, NY

Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954, 1961, 1999 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1970 Munson-Williams-Proctor Insti...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

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Early 20th Century Enso Zen Circle by Zen Master Shuhan Genpo
Early 20th Century Enso Zen Circle by Zen Master Shuhan Genpo

Early 20th Century Enso Zen Circle by Zen Master Shuhan Genpo

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H 48.82 in W 15.75 in D 0.4 in

Early 20th Century Enso Zen Circle by Zen Master Shuhan Genpo

Located in Berlin, Berlin

This Enso may have influenced the work by Jiro Yoshihara (1905-1972), one of the leading figures of the Japanese post-war movement Gutai, who painted also thin Enso in oil on canvas.

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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk, Paper

TREES DEEP SNOW #15
TREES DEEP SNOW #15

Tomioka SoichiroTREES DEEP SNOW #15

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H 15.5 in W 18.5 in

TREES DEEP SNOW #15

By Tomioka Soichiro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

The work from this movement has often been compared to that of American post-war abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Sam Francis, De Kooning, and Franz Kline, som...

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20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Sous le soleil #3
Sous le soleil #3

Krisztina HorvathSous le soleil #3, 2016

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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 Gutai movement. My paintings today predominantly reflect the stylistic features of ...

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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sous le soleil #4

Krisztina HorvathSous le soleil #4, 2016

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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 Gutai movement. My paintings today predominantly reflect the stylistic features of ...

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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sous le soleil #3
Sous le soleil #3

Krisztina HorvathSous le soleil #3, 2016

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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 Gutai movement. My paintings today predominantly reflect the stylistic features of ...

Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sous le soleil #4

Krisztina HorvathSous le soleil #4, 2016

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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 Gutai movement. My paintings today predominantly reflect the stylistic features of ...

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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Oil

Takashi Matsutani Vintage Japanese Etching Titled "La Propagation" Framed
Takashi Matsutani Vintage Japanese Etching Titled "La Propagation" Framed

Takashi Matsutani Vintage Japanese Etching Titled "La Propagation" Framed

By Takashi Matsutani

Located in North Miami, FL

He was from the school of the Gutai movement in Japan that reiterated, don't copy anyone be original.

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Vintage 1960s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Drawings

Materials

Paper, Wood

Abstract in Blue & Black by Kuniko Nakamura Rare Japanese Gutai Movement
Abstract in Blue & Black by Kuniko Nakamura Rare Japanese Gutai Movement

Abstract in Blue & Black by Kuniko Nakamura Rare Japanese Gutai Movement

By Kuniko Nakamura

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract Expressionist and Gutai Movement artist Kuniko June (Steel) Nakamura, Born June 3, 1929, enjoyed a distinguished and award winning career as an artist.

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hommage a Poliakoff, Tachiste Abstract Acrylic on Paper.
Hommage a Poliakoff, Tachiste Abstract Acrylic on Paper.

Hommage a Poliakoff, Tachiste Abstract Acrylic on Paper.

By Serge Poliakoff

Located in Cotignac, FR

COBRA is also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group. After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to Tachisme, the European equivalent of American abstract ex...

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Late 20th Century Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Claire Falkenstein Abstract Assemblage Sculpture Welded Iron Cobalt Glass
Claire Falkenstein Abstract Assemblage Sculpture Welded Iron Cobalt Glass

Claire Falkenstein Abstract Assemblage Sculpture Welded Iron Cobalt Glass

By Claire Falkenstein

Located in Surfside, FL

She was involved with art groups as radical as the Gutai Group in Japan and art autre in Paris and secured a lasting position in the vanguard, which she held until her death in 1997.

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art
Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art

Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art

By Enrico Donati

Located in Surfside, FL

Paul 1959 Michigan State University 1959 De Cordova & Dana Museum, Massachusetts 1959 American Federation of Arts, New York 1959 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1959 Rhode ...

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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting
Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting

Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting

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H 17.5 in W 17.75 in D 3.5 in

Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting

By Dennis Hare

Located in San Francisco, CA

Hare calls to mind the deep tissue abstraction of Rauschenberg and the pure materiality proposed by abstract works from the Japanese Postwar Japanese Gutai movement.

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21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Kazuo Shiraga - "Passionate Winner", 1988 - silkscreen, framed
Kazuo Shiraga - "Passionate Winner", 1988 - silkscreen, framed

Kazuo Shiraga - "Passionate Winner", 1988 - silkscreen, framed

By Kazuo Shiraga

Located in EL Waalre, NL

Kazuo Shiraga - "Passionate Winner", 1988 - silkscreen, framed Artist Kazuo Shiraga (1924, Amagasaki, Japan – 2008, Amagasaki, Japan) was a Japanese modern artist and prominent mem...

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Vintage 1980s Japanese Modern Prints

Materials

Paper

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The price for a japanese gutai in our collection starts at $175 and tops out at $275,000 with the average selling for $24,000.