Designer & Manufacturer: Kumi Sugaï
Markings: signed; 1968
Country of Origin & Materials: Japanese/French; oil on canvas
Additional Information & Circa: Painting 'Soleil' by Kumi Sugaï (1919 - 1996). Provenance: Galerie Christel, Helsinki | Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art, Miami, Florida. 'Sugaï participated in the Pittsburgh International (now Carnegie International) five times between 1955 and 1970; Exposition Universelle, Brussels (1958); and Documenta, Kassel, West Germany (1959, 1964). He received midcareer retrospectives at the Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, West Germany (1960), and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (1967). His work also was included in Painting and Sculpture of the Decade (1964), Tate Gallery, London, and he participated in the São Paulo Biennial (the prize for Foreign Artist, 1965) and the French Pavilion, Exposition universelle, Montreal (1967). Following a major car accident in 1967, from which he recovered in Paris, he received and completed the commissions for a mural for the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1968–69), and a public mural in the sport center in Hannover, West Germany, for the 1972 Olympics. A major retrospective was held at the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (1983), and traveled to Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan (1984). Sugaï died on May 14, 1996, in Kobe.' {source: Guggenheim}
Dimensions: 40"h, 40"w

very good, minor marks, wear and looseness to frame