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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 313

Yutaka Ohashi "Monsoon, #1" Oil on Canvas

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$2,000

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$500,000 $10,000

Signed upper right corner. Inscribed on verso. 

Date: 1975

 

Image: 35" Tall x 45" Wide 

Frame: 36" Tall x 46" Wide 

 

Condition: The painting is separating from the frame. Otherwise, the painting is in good condition. 

 

Artist Bio: Yutaka Ohashi (1923-1989) was born in Hiroshima and studied painting for three years at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts under Genichiro Inokuma. In 1950 he won an award at the Salon de Printemps in Tokyo and came to the United States to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he remained until 1955 and won the William Paige Traveling Scholarship. He showed regularly at the Swetzoff Gallery in Boston, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959, and later made New York his base.

Ohashi belongs to the generation of Japanese born painters who worked within American Abstract Expressionism while keeping a distinctly Japanese sensibility. His canvases join gestural brushwork to calligraphic rhythm, sometimes building texture with sand or rice paper, and take their titles from weather, the seasons and classical Japanese literature. He often worked in numbered series, each painting a variation on a single theme of motion and atmosphere, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Guggenheim. "Monsoon, #1," dated 1975, opens one of those series.

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