Artist: Takesada Matsutani
Title: Town
Medium: Screenprint
Signed: Hand Signed
Edition: 10/30
Measurements: 26" x 12"
Year: 1969
Condition: Excellent
Takesada Matsutani is born in 1937 in Osaka (Japan). As a teenager, he attends the art school of his hometown city, where he studies painting and traditional Japanese art of pigment and glue in bone (Nihonga). Suffering from tuberculosis, he spends eight years of his life at home, mostly bedridden. From the experience of this isolation, he pulls his first sketch. Very soon, he receives the dual influence of traditional Japanese culture and Western art. Surrealism marks him; then informal art introduced to Japan by the art critic Michel Tapie.In 1959, Sadamasa Motonaga puts him in contact with the Guta? group, a group he joins; Matsutani takes an active part in this first movement of Japanese postwar avant-garde affiliated with Western art, first Japanese movement to achieve international success and opened the path for contemporary art in this country. In 1966, the artist comes to Paris to study

Excellent