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YUICHI INOUE (1916-1985) SHOKU
[BELONGING], 1976
井上有一（1916 – 1985）、「属」、1976年
sumi on paper, sealed Yuichi, dated 76/3/10
without frame: 126 x 225cm, 49¾ x 88¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany
LITERATURE
YU-ICHI, Catalogue Raisonne of works 1949 - 1985 vols.1-3,
vol.2 1970-1976 (Tokyo, 1998), no.76015
Yūichi Inoue (1916-1985) was born in Tokyo the son of an
antique dealer. In 1935 he graduated from Tokyo Prefectural
Aoyama Normal School (present-day Tokyo Gakugei
University) and began working as an elementary school
teacher at Yokogawa National School, Tokyo.
In 1952 Inoue along with four other disciples of Sokyu Ueda;
Shiryu Morita (1912-1999), Eguchi Sōgen (1919-) Sekiya
Yoshimichi (b.1920) and Nakamura Bokushi (dates unknown)
left Keiseikai to found the avant-garde calligraphy group
Bokujinkai.
† £ 60,000-80,000
€ 68,000-90,500 US$ 79,000-106,000
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