Live Auction 13988Art of Japan
HISAO DOMOTO (1928 - 2013)
Lot 101 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

HISAO DOMOTO (1928 - 2013)

UNTITLED

Closed5 December 2017

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GBP 25,000

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HISAO DOMOTO (1928 - 2013)
UNTITLED
Oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed Domoto 1959-8 PARIS and in Japanese Domoto Hisao (on the reverse), painted in 1959
100 x 80 cm.

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A contemporary of Toshimitsu Imai, Hisao Domoto was born in Kyoto and went on to study Nihonga (traditional style Japanese painting) at Kyoto Municipal Art School. He exhibited in the Nihonga section at Nitten in 1948-1954, winning the Grand Prix in 1951 and 1953. In 1955, he moved to Paris and started to paint in oil, having a one-man show at Galerie Stadler in Paris in 1957. Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s he exhibited widely in Europe, USA and Japan.