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Place of Origin: Japanese
Mashiko Japanese Abstract Expressionist Serigraph, Untitled
Located in Queens, NY
Japanese Abstract Expressionist Serigraph, Signed & Numbered (MASHIKO)
Category
20th Century Anglo-Japanese Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Japanese Ink Hanging Scroll Hidaka Tetsuo with Wood Storage Box
By Hidaka Tetsuo
Located in Atlanta, GA
A hanging ink (Sumi-e) silk scroll by Japanese Zen artist Hidaka Tetsuo (1791-1871). Well presented in brocade boarders and mounted on paperback, this scroll depicts "Three Noble Friends in Winter" in a poetic and novel way. One of the favorite subjects by Chinese painters, the three noble friends in winter consists of pine, bamboo and plum flowers. They were admired for their characters of strength in cold resistance to remain evergreen and even blossom in unfavorable condition. The artist, however, composited the subjects in a none-conventional way as Ikebana. Bamboo and flowering plum branches were presented in an oversized pot...
Category
19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Brocade, Wood, Paper
Lovely Japanese Blockprint Made by Kogyo Antique Meiji, 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Interesting and finely painted Japanese painting. Marked Kogyo.
Additional information:
Material: Paper
Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: ca 1900
Con...
Category
19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$398 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Japanese Blue + White Charger, circa 1890, 73cm dia
Located in Brighton, Sussex
This exquisite Meiji period Japanese blue and white porcelain charger, measuring 73 cm in diameter, showcases the artistry o...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
'Casablanca' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1946
Located in Devon, GB
An exceedingly rare and attractive poster for the first Postwar release of 'Casablanca' in Japan, printed only for use in the three theatres where the film premiered on 13th June 194...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Meiji Riverside Scroll Painting, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Although western painting was initially embraced during Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912), artists brought on a revival of traditional painting styles as they sought to create a modern Japanese style with roots in the past. This exquisite hanging scroll demonstrates the preference for soft layering of gray tones with judicious use of color. The landscape is rendered in soft ink washes that subtly distinguish between water, mountain, and sky. The scroll painting...
Category
Early 20th Century Meiji Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Oniwa Onsen Hot Spring Spa Park Japan Buddha
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for 鬼岩公園 Oniiwa Park in Japan featuring a colourful design depicting images on a route line of the granite rocks in the distance with autumn leaves fal...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Imari charger, circa 1880 56cm diameter.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A striking late 19th Century Japanese Imari charger, with classical motif decoration to the red ground, gilded highlights and a central panel depicting a mythical exotic bird.
Batch...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Mashiko Japanese Abstract Expressionist Serigraph, Untitled
Located in Queens, NY
Japanese Abstract Expressionist Serigraph, Signed & Numbered, (MASHIKO)
Category
20th Century Anglo-Japanese Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Student Writing Map Japanese Lacquer Ware Writing Meiji Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Antique Student Writing Map Japanese Lacquer Ware Writing Meiji Period Japan
Some damage
Additional information:
Material: Lacquer
Region of Origin: Japan...
Category
19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Lacquer
$718 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Japan Trade Expo Yokohama Tokyo Bay Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Japan Trade Expo / 日本貿易博覽會 on 15 March 1949 at Nogeyama Park Yokohama City featuring a view over the city with a train running along a rai...
Category
1940s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Shinto Itsukushima Island Japan Festival
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by the Hiroshima Railway Bureau for a festival at the historic Shinto Itsukushima Shrine on Itsukushima island in Japan featuring fireworks and lanterns with the famous sacred torii gate...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Ghost (Get Out of Town)" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Classically trained in Florence, Italy, Kii creates his modern mosaics using traditional techniques and materials, including hand-cut Italian marble and Venetian smalti glass. Eschewing the figural in favor of the abstract, his mosaics rely on contrasts of pattern and form to convey complex themes and achieve visual harmony.
Toyoharu Kii’s latest body of work “Geophytes” continues themes of rebirth and renewal. A reference to plants that regrow from hidden elements beneath the earth’s surface, the series celebrates the resilience of the natural world. Each mosaic is imagined as a landscape that documents a history of environmental damage due to human activity, and the subsequent return of nature as a restorative force. Through the juxtaposition of patterns and the interplay of order and disorder, Kii creates man-made “images of destruction” and finds hope in the future by “reconstructing nature.”
In this mosaic entitled "Ghost (Get Out...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Barbet Schroeder 'More' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1971
Located in Devon, GB
A bewitching full-bleed black and white photograph of a supine Mimsy Farmer confronts us on this scarce english-language poster for the first Japanese release of Barbet Schroeder's 1...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
Lovely Japanese Painting ‘Woman in Sitting Position’ Antique Meiji, ca 1900
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Interesting and finely painted Japanes painting. Marked.
Additional information:
Material: Paper
Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: ca 1900
Age: ca 19...
Category
19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$358 Sale Price
20% Off
Kanban, Japanese Shop Sign, Meiji Period, 1868-1912
Located in Camden, ME
This 19th century Japanese Pharmacy sign advertises a popular stomach medicine, Aifu from the Juwa Co. in Osaka. The hand-painted registered trademark of the world looking through bi...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Lacquer
'Hang 'Em High' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
Located in Devon, GB
A steely Clint Eastwood dominates as a vengeful lawman fighting to bring down the vigilante lynch mob who left him for dead on this atmospheric B2 poster for the original Japanese re...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Two Panel Screen Ink Painting of Banana Leaves on Mulberry Paper
Located in Hudson, NY
Edo period (dated 1787) beautiful painting of unfurling palm leaves with romping puppies in the background. Ink painting (sumi-e) on mulberry paper. Signature reads: Okyo. Calligraph...
Category
Late 18th Century Edo Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Elvis 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' Original Vintage Japanese B2 Movie Poster, 1963
Located in Devon, GB
Following the tried and tested golden formula of light-hearted musical entertainment, exotic location and girls galore which saw Elvis' soundtrack albums far outstrip his regular album sales, 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' stands out as one of Elvis Presley's more popular films, even receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture - Musical. Elvis' eleventh feature film and his second shot in Hawaii, 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' was a safe money-spinner for both his record label RCA and the film's distributor Paramount, who saw Elvis voted as 1962's 'Top Box Office Draw' for having three of the top grossing films of that year. The highlight of the film is Presley's performance of his enduring pop classic 'Return to Sender,' which subsequently peaked at no.2 on the US Billboard chart when released as the lead single from the soundtrack album. Seen in sublime profile, Elvis is every inch the handsome heartthrob as the penniless fishing boat pilot on this ultra rare B2 poster for the original Japanese release. Completing one of the best poster designs we have seen for this picture, a bevy of bikini-clad beauties feature at the foot of the photomontage, with Elvis as the carefree sailor sandwiched between his two love interests, played by Stella Stevens...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Hiroshige Tokaido Road 29th station : Hamamatsu : Japanese Blockprint
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Antique Japanese Blockprint Painting Japan Edo or Meiji.
A very nice blockprint.
Additional information:
Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints
Region of Origin: Japan
Country of Manufa...
Category
19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Agate
$710 Sale Price
20% Off
"Sprout" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Monochromatic, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Okinawa Naha City Shuri Castle Japan Papaya
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japan travel poster for Okinawa 沖縄 issued by the Naha City Commerce and Tourism Division featuring a great design depictin...
Category
1960s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Lafcadio Hearn Japan Yakumo Koizumi Birth Centenary
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster advertising the Birth Centenary Commemoration of Lafcadio Hearn / Yakumo Koizumi held in Matsue City on 27 June 1950 featuring a colourful painting of the historic Matsue Castle and lake with the text on the dark background above and below. The Greek Irish writer, translator and teacher Patrick Lafcadio Hearn 小泉 八雲 Yakumo Koizumi (1850-1904) lived in Japan from 1890 and was instrumental in introducing Japanese culture and literature to the West; the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum opened in 1933. Good condition, restored folds, error on first letter of title...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Japan Sightseeing Bus Temple Kimono Nippon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Sightseeing Bus trips in Japan issued by Kansai Teisan Auto Co Ltd featuring a colourful design depicting a tour bus driving through a collage of J...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Tanzawa Mountains Kanto National Park Japan Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Tanzawa Mountains National Park in the Kanto region of Japan - From Shinjuku to Odakyu get off at Hadano, Shibusawa and Shin-Matsuda - featurin...
Category
1960s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Japan Okuchichibu Tama Kai National Park
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Chichibu Tama Kai National Park in Japan issued by the Saitama Prefecture Chichibu Tourism Council featuring yellow flowers and a field of gree...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Woodblock Print Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo by Hiroshige Hirokage
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist: Utagawa Hirokage (active 1855-1865)
Series: Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo
Number: 21 "Cherry-blossom Viewing at the Middle Hall and the Double Hall in Ueno"
Mediu...
Category
1850s Edo Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Bleu" by Kumi Sugaï (1996)
By Kumi Sugai
Located in Weesp, NL
"Bleu" by Kumi Sugaï (1996)
Experience the allure of contemporary Japanese art with "Bleu," a stunning copperplate etching by the celebrated artist Kumi Sugaï. Created in 1996, this...
Category
1990s Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Mount Fuji Traditional Japanese Woodblock Print 46/50
Located in Weesp, NL
Introducing an exquisite masterpiece: "Winter Serenity – Mount Fuji's Majestic Embrace." Embrace the timeless beauty of Japan's winter wonderland with this limited-edition woodblock ...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Sapporo Tourist City Japan Hokkaido Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Sapporo the Tourist City features a lady carrying a basket of corn with illustrations of the city's historic and modern architecture in the backgro...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster NYK Line Around The World Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Around the World Eastward or Westward with NYK Line - featuring a stunning streamlined Art Deco design by the Swedish artist Gosta Georgi...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Kumi Sugaī Signed Lithograph Signal A 1974
By Kumi Sugai
Located in Weesp, NL
Kumi Sugaï, o e of the most internationally acclaimed Japanese painters of the twentieth century.
1974 Limited Edition lithograph Signal A by Kumi Sugaī. Edition 90/190 signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
56 x 76 cm. The cost of insured shipping to the United States is Euro 125.
Colors may vary.
Kumi Sugai (菅井 汲, Sugaī Kumi...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Asia Travel Advertising Poster Niigata Industry Expo Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the 新潟 Niigata Prefecture Industry Expo held from 20 July to 31 August 1950 featuring a colourful design depicting smoke rising from in...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Ghost (Waiting For Friends)" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Original Vintage Asia Travel Poster Gion Festival Kyoto Float Procession Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising the Gion Festival Float Procession in Kyoto on 17 and 25 July featuring artwork depicting a large traditional float mounted on a wooden car...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
John Lennon Drawing, Pink Seals on Ice
By John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Located in Port Washington, NY
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Seals Art Poster Print. Hardware for hanging. Seascape / Nautical drawing. Taken from the personal sketchbook of John Lennon.
Category
1970s Other Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
$799 Sale Price
20% Off
'The Girl on a Motorcycle' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
Located in Devon, GB
A rare Japanese B2 for the 1960s cult classic 'The Girl on a Motorcycle,' which followed Marianne Faithful on a psychedelic motorcycle ride across...
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Antique Zen Japanese Ink Scroll After Sesson Shukei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Sumi ink painting with light color wash mounted with brocade borders as a hanging scroll (Kakejiku). The painting depicts the famously eccentric Buddhist monks Hanshan and Shide (known in Japan as Kanzan and Jittoku). Often as a pair, they have been a popular motif in Japanese Zen painting...
Category
18th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paper
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Lacquer Penguins
Located in Hudson, NY
Beige ground lacquer with black and grey lacquer penguins with small pieces of shell making up white areas. Lacquer on wood. Writing reads: Lacquer Screen By Izumi Atsuhiko. It was ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Shell, Wood, Lacquer
Memoirs of a Geisha A Portrait of the Film By Peggy Mulloy 2005 Hardcover Book
By David James
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Memoirs of a Geisha A Portrait of the film by Peggy Mulloy · 2005 hardcover book.
By David James (Photographs by), Peggy Mulloy (Text by), Rob Marshall (Introduction by), Arthur Gol...
Category
Late 20th Century Japonisme Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
19th Century Japanese Hand Painted Porcelain and Bronze lmari Wall Charger
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this large, porcelain Imari import charger. Crafted in Japan circa 1890, the important Asian ceramic platter features hand painted floral decor with gilt accents...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Fahrenheit 451
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1966 French Science fiction film Fahrenheit 451. This film Starred Oskar Werner, Julie Christie and Cyril Cusack and directed by Francois Truffa...
Category
1960s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$1,037
"Reconstructed Landscape, " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2022
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Rare Early Original Vintage Toyota Advertising Poster for Toyopet Pick Up Trucks
Located in London, GB
Rare early original advertising poster for Toyota. Colorful Mid-Century image on a blue and white background featuring two men wearing short sleeved shirts and caps, off-loading wooden crates from a yellow pick up truck...
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1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Le Mans
Located in London, GB
Original advance style Japanese film poster for the classic 1971 Steve McQueen racing film. This poster is conservation paper backed and would be shipped flat in a strong pack and s...
Category
1970s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$1,071
Black & White Photography Limited Edition Portrait of a Japanese Sushi Chef
Located in Weesp, NL
Limited Edition #01/10 Black & White portrait of a Sushi Chef in Tokyo October 2022 by Taco Joustra.
This portrait is part of a series titled "Faces of Ja...
Category
2010s Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Two for the Road
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1967 comedy directed by Stanley Donent and starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney.
This poster is the rarer size poster and was printed in 2 ...
Category
1960s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$1,037
Original Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Ski Japan Harayama Hida Takayama
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Japanese winter sport railway travel poster promoting the Harayama Hida Takayama alpine national park in the Hida Province Temporary (...
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1960s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Japanese Print Its Evolution and Essence" Book by Muneshige Narazaki
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
The Japanese print: its evolution and essence
Book by Muneshige Narazaki.
"In this book the author attempts to place the Japanese print in a very broad historical setting. He has str...
Category
1970s Arts and Crafts Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
1970 lithograph titled ‘Fête’ by Kumi Sugaï 92/100
By Kumi Sugai
Located in Weesp, NL
Kumi Sugai, Fête, 1970 – Signed & Numbered Lithograph (Edition 92/100)
Dimensions: H 65 x W 50 cm 25.6 x 19.7 in
A striking example of post-war Japanese modernism, Fête (1970) by ...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Porcelain Charger, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Japanese porcelain charger, circa 1880.
Category
1880s Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Kagawa Japan Sun Yashima Mountain Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster for the Kagawa prefecture in Japan featuring a stunning design of a red sun reflected on the blue water with the bold text above and below, als...
Category
1960s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Winter Morning by Taku Harada 1960
Located in Weesp, NL
Experience the Serenity of Shirakawa-go in "Winter Morning" by Taku Harada
Immerse yourself in the tranquil beauty of Shirakawa-go with this exquisite Jap...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Aquatints by Tadaaki Kuwayama
Located in San Francisco, CA
Tadaaki Kuwayama, Aquatints, 1990, on hand made Ichibei Iwano Japanese paper, each signed in pencil,
Printed by Wingate Studio, New Hampshire.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Japanese Carved and Polychromed Wood Panel of Gourds and Lotus
Located in Essex, MA
Depicting two large melons with calligraphy surmounted with lotus and flower and dragonfly. Painted in golds, reds, blues and green.
Estate of John Volk, Pa...
Category
1850s Meiji Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Other
Original Vintage Travel Poster Kaminoyama Hot Spring Onsen Zao Echo Line Japan
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Kaminoyama Onsen hot springs health resort town featuring great artwork in grey and black depicting a scenic view of the mountains with two tourist buses driving on the Zao Echo Line road by the Mount Zao volcano with blue water in the Okama Crater lake...
Category
1950s Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Framed Japanese Buddhist Amida Temple Hall Painting, Mid-19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A large and incredible Japanese painting of a Buddhist temple hall with Amida Nyorai, late Edo or early Meiji period, mid-19th century, Japan. Mounted wit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Meiji Antique Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Acrylic, Wood, Paint
"Blue Tree, " Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii, 2023
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
"Ghost (Big Wings)" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Classically trained in Florence, Italy, Kii creates his modern mosaics using traditional techniques and materials, including hand-cut Italian marble and Venetian smalti glass. Eschewing the figural in favor of the abstract, his mosaics rely on contrasts of pattern and form to convey complex themes and achieve visual harmony.
Toyoharu Kii’s latest body of work “Geophytes” continues themes of rebirth and renewal. A reference to plants that regrow from hidden elements beneath the earth’s surface, the series celebrates the resilience of the natural world. Each mosaic is imagined as a landscape that documents a history of environmental damage due to human activity, and the subsequent return of nature as a restorative force. Through the juxtaposition of patterns and the interplay of order and disorder, Kii creates man-made “images of destruction” and finds hope in the future by “reconstructing nature.”
In this mosaic entitled "Ghost (Big Wings)," Kii takes a more representational approach to his storytelling, creating figurative drawings out of thin lines of tesserae. The mosaic belongs to his “Ghost” triptych, wherein Kii uses “wings” to represent the presence of a heavenly being, the ghosts of past spirits or the presence of an angel or guardian. In “Ghost (Big Wings),” Kii mourns the extinction of many creatures due to environmental change and imagines their lonely spirits wandering the earth. Enveloping their silhouettes is “a bird with big wings,” writes Kii, depicted here within a dense mosaic of abstract patterns, a symbol for nature’s healing power. “The bird consoles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
' Violet ' by Kumi Sugaï 1970
By Kumi Sugai
Located in Weesp, NL
Kumi Sugaï, one of the most internationally acclaimed Japanese painters of the twentieth century.
' Violet ' 1970 Lithograph by Kumi Sugaï in excellent condition. The lithograph is after the 1959 original painting. The work is signed by the artist and comes with it's original Japanese frame. Printed in Tokyo, Japan by Hako Shikuma Shobo.
Kumi Sugaï (1919–1996): A Brief Biography
Kumi Sugaï was a Japanese-French artist known for his innovative approach to abstract art, blending elements of traditional Japanese calligraphy with modern abstraction. He was born on January 3, 1919, in Kobe, Japan, and began his artistic career in the 1930s.
In the 1950s, Sugaï moved to France, where he became associated with the art movement known as "Abstraction Lyrique...
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1970s Other Vintage Japanese Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
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