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LOT 50:
Toshimitsu Imai (1928–2002)
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Sold for: €500
Price including buyer’s premium:
€
640
Start price:
€
500
Estimate :
€1,000 - €1,500
Buyer's Premium: 28%
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Item Overview
Description:
Toshimitsu Imai (1928–2002) |
Untitled, 1981
Ink on Paper
Signed: Signed lower right “IMAI 81”.
Dimensions:
Framed: 68.5 × 84 cm | 27 × 33.1 in
Artwork: 63 × 79 cm | 24.8 × 31.1 in
Provenance:
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Condition:
Good vintage condition with some signs of wear. Framed.
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Toshimitsu Imai’s Untitled (1981) is the culmination of the artist’s late work where he combined gestural abstraction and Eastern calligraphy. Black ink arcs flow and collide on the paper like the Art Informel movement he was part of in post-war Paris. The surface is expressive of control and spontaneity — each stroke full of intention, rhythm and movement.
Ink on paper this work shows Imai’s ability to translate emotion into gesture. The tension between the ink fields and the empty space is his ongoing dialogue between East and West — Japanese aesthetics and European abstraction. The result is an image that is both immediate and timeless.
Untitled (1981) is from the mature period of Imai’s work where his art became more introspective and monumental. It is the synthesis of spirit and matter that is his work — a visual balance of discipline and impulse, serenity and force.
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