
Konkai
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 EUR
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Kazuo Shiraga
1924-2008
Konkai
signed in Japanese (lower right); titled twice in Japanese (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
182 x 259 cm; 71 5/8 x 102 in.
Executed in 1989.
Kasahara Gallery, Osaka
Private collection, Osaka
Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp
Private collection, Switzerland
Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga, 16–31 January 1990, illustrated in colour on the cover
Osaka, Kasahara Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga, 26 November–15 December 1990, no. 2, p. 2 et 7, illustrated
Antwerp, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga, 6 September–20 October 2012
Manfred de la Motte, Die Würde und der Mut - L'Art Moral, Berlin, 1991, p.2, illustrated (in situ picture in the studio)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Stadler, Kazuo Shiraga, 14 May-27 June 1992, 1992, p.2, illustrated (in situ picture in the studio)
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Kazuo Shiraga, 7 December 1992–13 February 1993, 1992, pp.2, 119, illustrated (in situ picture in the studio)
Exh. Cat., Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kazuo Shiraga, 2001, p.129, no. 278, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Toyoshina, Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Kazuo Shiraga: Painting Born Out of Fighting, 2009, fig.311, illustrated in colour
Manuel Jover, Gutai et l'art de la performance au Japon, Connaissance des Arts, February 2013, p.70, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Galerie Dominique Lévy, Body And Matter - Kazuo Shiraga | Satoru Hoshino, 2015, illustrated (in situ picture in the studio)
Exh. Cat., New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery and Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kazuo Shiraga, 2015, illustrated (in situ picture in the studio)
Exh. Cat., Amagasaki, Amagasaki Cultural Center, Kazuo Shiraga: Dedicate everything to Action, 2024, p. 230, illustrated in colour