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Artist: Inagaki Toshijiro (Nengiro) (1902-1963)

Title: Fisherman, Full color Stencil Block Print

Date: 1969

Edition: Unknown, 56/300

Sig./Seal: Inagaki's 'Toshi' Red Seal, Mikumo Publisher Red Seal, Name/Date/Number

Condition: Excellent

Size: 16.25 x 12.75                               $325

Inagaki Toshijiro

After graduation, Inagaki worked at the Matsuzakaya department store, where he learned to dye cloth. He left the department store in 1931 to focus on his art. He was primarily known as a designer of kimono patterns. These patterns were made by using stencils to print on fabric with a resist medium before dyeing. In 1938, he began to dye screen paintings using the yuzen method of dyeing. He won an award at the Kokugakai exhibition in 1940, but he entered the spotlight when one of his paintings was selected at the Nitten exhibition in 1941.He was selected twice more after that.

After World War II, he left the Kokugakai and formed the Shinsho Bijutsu Kogei Kai with Tomimoto Kenkichi. He then began dyeing using the katazome method in 1948, and continued to do so for the rest of his life. He was appointed a professor at his alma mater, the Kyoto City University of Arts, in 1958. He was designated a Living National Treasure in 1962, a year before his death from cancer on June 10, 1963.His work is held by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art.

Inagaki Toshijiro (Nengiro) (1902-1963) Fisherman, Full color Stencil Block

$325.00Price

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