TOSHIKO TAKAEZU (1922-2011) Untitled Closed Form (Anagama), circa 1980-1997 Anagama-fired stoneware 32 ½ in. (82.5 cm) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm) diameter incised with artist's monogram TT
TOSHIKO TAKAEZU (1922-2011) Untitled Closed Form (Anagama), circa 1980-1997 Anagama-fired stoneware 32 ½ in. (82.5 cm) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm) diameter incised with artist's monogram TT
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997
Toshiko Takaezu: 1989-1990, exh. cat., Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, 1990, pp. 10-11, no. 16 (for a related example) J. Stanley Yake, Toshiko Takaezu: The Earth in Bloom, New York, 2005, pp. 42, 73, 140-142 (for related examples) S. A. Schields, Echoes of the Earth: Ceramics by Toshiko Takaezu, exh. cat., Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2007, pp. vi-vii, 12, 29, pl. 29 (for related examples) P. Held, ed., The Art of Toshiko Takaezu: In the Language of Silence, Chapel Hill, 2010, pp. 106-17, no. 64 (for a related example) G. Adamson, D. Hart, and K. Wiener, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, 2024, pp. 15, 38-39, 152-154 (for related examples)
Christie’s would like to thank the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation for their assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.