Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section YASUI Sotaro

The Ishibashi Foundation Collection, which operates the Artizon Museum, has a collection currently consisting of about 3,000 works, including modern Western art from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, modern Japanese art from the Meiji period (1868–1912) on, post-World War II Abstract paintings, early modern and modern art from Japan and East Asia, and Greek and Roman art. Throughout the year, we introduce selections from our collection.

Special Section YASUI Sotaro
Yasui Sotaro (1888–1955) went through a long exploratory period after studying in France, before establishing his own style, in which he expressed the essence of his subject through the use of deformé. His Seated Lady (1929), a recent Artizon Museum acquisition, is an important work, the first that showed the world what came to be called the “Yasui style.” This exhibition focuses on Seated Lady in introducing the continual transformations of Yasui’s work from his time in Europe until the last year of his life.

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