Live Auction 11796Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Shozo Shimamoto (1928-2013)
Lot 155

Shozo Shimamoto (1928-2013)

Palazzo Ducale 18

Closed12 February 2016

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GBP 98,500

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Shozo Shimamoto (1928-2013)
Palazzo Ducale 18
signed 'S. Shimamoto' (lower left)
enamel and broken glass on canvas
62 3/8 x 72 ¼in. (158.5 x 183.3cm.)
Executed in 2008

Associazione Shozo Shimamoto, Naples.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I think the throwing of bottles as a method of painting is a form of study of the unknown…  More than anything else, I find stimulation in the materialization of an unpredictable expression’

(B. Oliva, quoted in Shimamoto Shozo, Samurai, acrobata dello sguardo 1950-2008, exh. cat., Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Milan, 2008, P.26)