TOSHIMITSU IMAI (Kyoto, 1928 - 2002) Untitled,... Lot 17

TOSHIMITSU IMAI (Kyoto, 1928 - 2002) Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial". Silkscreen on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 114/250. Signed, dated and justified by hand. Size: 63 x 90 cm. The Olympic Suite is made up of 50 lithographs and silkscreen prints chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined by different pictorial movements and trends. Toshimitsu Imai trained at the Tokyo State Academy of Art and his early works show a strong influence of the intellectual and decorative treatment of color already employed by the Fauves. Throughout his career he moved towards increasing formal synthetism and was one of the introducers of abstract art in Japan, although he never entirely abandoned figuration, to which he returned repeatedly at various points in his life, exploring the connection between the historical avant-garde and its contributions and traditional Japanese art.