Untitled (KIe)

Name: KYOHEI INUKAI (1913-1985)
Brand: Untitled (KIe)
Price: 1100.00 USD
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Closed: 6 Mar 2020

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KYOHEI INUKAI (1913-1985)

Untitled (KIe)

Price Realised USD 1,375

Closed: 6 Mar 2020

Price Realised USD 1,375

Closed: 6 Mar 2020

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KYOHEI INUKAI (1913-1985)
Untitled (KIe)
screenprint in colors, on white card, 1969, signed in pencil, numbered 66/100, there were also ten artist's proofs, printed and published by Edition Domberger, Stuttgart
Sheet: 25¹⁄₂ x 19⁵⁄₈ in. (648 x 499 mm.)

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Kyohei Inukai was born in Chicago and studied at the Chicago Art Institute, National Academy of Design and Art Students League in New York City. He had his first solo-show at the California Arts Club in 1934. He worked as a painter, printmaker and sculptor. Over the course of his career, he employed a variety of styles, but is best known for his later compositions of abstract shapes and patterns, mostly in glowing reds, blues and purples, of which the present screenprint is a classic example. Referring back to his Japanese heritage, Inukai also worked as a poet and wrote .
Kyohei Inukai's work is represented in several inportant public collections in the USA, including the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York; Portland Museum of Fine Art, Oregon; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; and the Wichita University Museum of Fine Art, Kansas.