Kumi Sugai

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Kumi Sugai Blue Red and Moons
Blue Red and Moons , 1969
Lithograph
26 x 20 in
SOLD
Kumi Sugai Untitled
Untitled , 1970
Lithograph
30 x 21 in
$1,200
Kumi Sugai Sun 4
Sun 4 , 1970
Lithograph
30 x 22 in
SOLD

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Kumi Sugai

Kumi Sugai

Kumi Sugai Biography

Kumi Sugaï was born on March 13, 1919, in Kobe, Japan. Sugaï first experimented with oil painting at age nine and became a student at the Osaka School of Fine Arts in 1933 when he was fourteen. He was part of the first generation of 20th-century Japanese artists to become acquainted with Western painting techniques, but he also explored both typography and Japanese calligraphy, important in his subsequent work. Sugaï left art school prematurely to work in commercial advertising for Hankyu electric rail company from 1937 to 1945. During the 1940s, Sugaï gradually became familiar with the work of European artists such as Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró, and late in that decade he discovered the work of Americans Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock through art magazines.

He dedicated himself to painting and moved to Paris in 1952, enrolling at the Académie de la grand chaumière. He had his first solo show at Galerie Craven in 1954. Considered part of the École de Paris (School of Paris) and the Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) movements, in 1962 he began to shift away from the abstraction in vogue on his arrival in Paris, moving from calligraphic, mainly monochromatic, organic motifs to more hard-edge geometric imagery.

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