ZENZABURO KOJIMA (JAPAN, 1893-1962)

Mirror

Details

ZENZABURO KOJIMA (JAPAN, 1893-1962)
Mirror
signed 'Z.Z.Kojima' (lower left)
oil on canvas
97 x 130.5 cm. (38 1/4 x 51 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1930

Provenance

Private Collection, Japan

Literature

Fukuoka Art Museum, Zenzaburo Kojima Centennial Memorial Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan, 1993 (illustrated, plate 58, p.78; illustrated in black & white, plate 58, p. 231).
Committee to Publish Works of Zenzaburo Kojima c/o Gallery Kojima, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Painting Works of Zenzaburo Kojima, Tokyo, Japan, 2012 (illustrated, plate 169, p. 23).

Exhibited

Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, Zenzaburo Kojima Centennial Memorial Exhibition, July - August 1993. This exhibition later travelled to Chiba, Japan, Chiba Sogo Department Store, August - September 1993; Ibaraki, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki, September - October 1993; Mie, Japan, Mie Prefecture Art Museum, January - February 1994.

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Lot Essay

“The most important thing is whether perpetual life flows in the background of the paintings, whether all things in nature outside the canvas and my painting breathe into each other. My work is just beginning. Let us purge all superficial beauty! We must confront and try to capture what is deeper, as more powerful, and eternal even if it only one, two, or hundred steps..” -ZENZABURO KOJIMA

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