Japanese Gutai
"White Blue Green" original painting by Japanese Gutai artist Motonaga
Located in London, GB
Sadamasa Motonaga
1922 - 2011
White Blue Green, 2000
acrylic on canvas
61 x 73 cm
24 x 28 3/4 in
In pristine condition, framed in a bespoke white box frame
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
H 24.02 in W 28.75 in
Dystopian Dreams
Located in BARCELONA, ES
art of the avant-garde Japanese Gutai movement. Her paintings today mostly bear the stylistic features
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Unique Contemporary Abstract Screen Painting inspiration from the Gutai art
Located in Fukuoka, JP
executed on a folding screen, drawing bold inspiration from the pioneering Gutai art movement of postwar
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Paper
$4,280
H 64.18 in W 57.09 in D 1.19 in
Late 20th Century Tachiste Oil
Acrylic on Canvas.
Gelb-Rot-Blau-Braun
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Located in Cotignac, FR
(related to American Lyrical Abstraction). COBRA is also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group
Category
1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,039 Sale Price
45% Off
H 19.75 in W 19.75 in D 0.9 in
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
artist and illustrator in Japan; later, he joined the Gutai, a Japanese artist collective known for its
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic, Board
Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1962 (abstract)
By Senkichiro Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group.
The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
H 6.11 in W 15.75 in
Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Painting on paper executed in 1963 (abstract)
By Senkichiro Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
(Nagano, Japan)
Literature:
Gutai Decentering Modernism, Ming Tiampo, University of Chicago Press
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$9,000
H 19.69 in W 14.57 in
Work by Senkichiro Nasaka. Mixed media on paper (1962) (abstract painting)
By Senkichiro Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group.
The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
H 13.39 in W 8.67 in
Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art
By Enrico Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1959 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1958 Gutai 9, Osaka
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$7,500
H 14.5 in W 8 in D 8 in
Sadaharu Horio by Atsuo Yamamoto, Axel Vervoordt and Heinz-Norbert Joks
Located in valatie, NY
Vervoordt on one of Japan's most prominent avant-garde Gutai artists. Sadaharu Horio, born in 1939 in Kobe
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Books
Materials
Paper
No Exit
By Enrico Donati
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
, 1957
Gutai 9, Osaka, Japan, 1958
Inter-American Paintings & Prints Biennial, Mexico City, 1958
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
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Early 20th Century Enso Zen Circle by Zen Master Shuhan Genpo
Located in Berlin, Berlin
Yoshihara (1905-1972), one of the leading figures of the Japanese post-war movement Gutai, who painted also
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
TREES DEEP SNOW #15
By Tomioka Soichiro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
their Japanese counterparts. For Gutai school artists, the artistic process was chance collaboration
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Sous le soleil #4
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Oil
Sous le soleil #3
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sous le soleil #3
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sous le soleil #4
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I often draw inspiration from nature and Eastern art, particularly from the avant-garde Japanese
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Takashi Matsutani Vintage Japanese Etching Titled "La Propagation" Framed
By Takashi Matsutani
Located in North Miami, FL
MOMA in NYC. He was from the school of the Gutai movement in Japan that reiterated, don't copy anyone
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Drawings
Materials
Paper, Wood
Emergence #3 Japan - Gutai Movement Abstract Exp - Kuniko June (Steel) Nakamura
By Kuniko Nakamura
Located in Soquel, CA
Emergence #3 Japan - Gutai Movement Abstract Expressionist - Kuniko June (Steel) Nakamura (American
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Abstract in Blue
Black by Kuniko Nakamura Rare Japanese Gutai Movement
By Kuniko Nakamura
Located in Soquel, CA
is signed "Nakamura" on verso ("Emergence #3").
Abstract Expressionist and Gutai Movement artist
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hommage a Poliakoff, Tachiste Abstract Acrylic on Paper.
By Serge Poliakoff
Located in Cotignac, FR
Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group.
After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to
Category
Late 20th Century Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Claire Falkenstein Abstract Assemblage Sculpture Welded Iron Cobalt Glass
By Claire Falkenstein
Located in Surfside, FL
involved with art groups as radical as the Gutai Group in Japan and art autre in Paris and secured a
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
H 9.25 in W 6.25 in D 6.5 in
Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art
By Enrico Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1959 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1958 Gutai 9, Osaka
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dennis Hare Mixed-Media Abstract Painting
By Dennis Hare
Located in San Francisco, CA
works from the Japanese Postwar Japanese Gutai movement.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Kazuo Shiraga - "Passionate Winner", 1988 - silkscreen, framed
By Kazuo Shiraga
Located in EL Waalre, NL
, Amagasaki, Japan – 2008, Amagasaki, Japan) was a Japanese modern artist and prominent member of the Gutai
Category
Vintage 1980s Japanese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
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H 36 in W 70.5 in D 0.5 in
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Category
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Category
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