TANIOKA SHIGEO (B. 1949)
Forrest (Shinra), 2002
A flower arranging basket, of bamboo (madake), rattan and lacquer
Signed to the underside in incised characters Shigeo zo (made by Shigeo), together with a fitted wood artist’s storage box (tomobako) titled as above and signed Tanioka Shigeo zo (made by Tanioka Shigeo) and sealed Tanioka Shigeo
8⁷⁄₈ x 20¹⁄₈ in. (22.5 x 51 cm.)

Acquired from Tai Gallery, Santa Fe, 2003.

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Tanioka Shigeo apprenticed under Tanabe Chikuunsai II and became independent in 1984. He produces both traditional vessels and highly abstract and sculptural works, and he is known to spend months of time on each piece.

For a work by Tanioka Shigeo in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession no. 2013.29.127A,B, go to:

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117059/shimmering-of-hot-air-tanioka-shigeo

For another in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), New York, accession no. 2019.424.30, go to:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/706924