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Work code : 10192

Toshimitsu IMAI

「The work(black)」


acrylic・canvas
38.2x51.3in
97x130.3cm

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Imai had established non-figurative painting of his own style covering the rich materials with delicate lines. After trying poetry paintings, he set out to revive the traditional beauty of Japan creating the series called “Kacho Fugetsu (Beauties of Nature),” and in the late 1990s he worked on the series “Hiroshima” and “Nagasaki” on the ravages of war.

[Biography]

1928 Born in Kyoto
1950 Studied for a year as an exchange student at Tokyo National University of Fine
Arts and Music
1951 Received Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize
1952 Moved to France
1953 Four people exhibition with Kumi Sugai, Yasukazu Tabuchi, and Paolo Vallorz,
Foyer Des Artistes, Paris
1957 Solo Exhibition, Galerie Stadler, Paris
   Exhibited in Contemporary World Art, the Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
1959 Exhibited in the 1st Biennale de Paris
1960 Exhibited in the 30th Venice Biennale
1963 Exhibited in Trends of contemporary paintings –The West and Japan, the
National
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1970 Painted walls for Fuji Group Pavilion and created an iron objet for Livelihood
Industery Pavilion at Expo '70, Osaka
1975 Published his picture book, Toshimitsu Imai, written by Ichiro Hariu. (Kyuryudo
Art Publishing CO.,LTD.)
1980 Moved to New York
1982 Invited to live and work in the studio at Centre Georges Pompidou for 2 years
1983 Received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: the officier
1989 Toshimitsu Imai Exhibition –Toho no Hikari (Light of the East)-, the National
Museum of Art, Osaka, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, and Iwaki City Art
Museum, Fukushima
1991 Toshimitsu Imai Exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
2002 Died at the age of 73
2003 Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts Collection Exhibition –Kaiga no Boken
(Aventure) –Toshimitsu Imai and History of Postwar Art, Asia and Pacific Trade
Center, Osaka

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