Avant-garde - Japan - Manmo sobyoshu (Manchurian... Lot 907

Avant-garde - Japan - Manmo sobyoshu (Manchurian and Mongolian drawings). With 28 plates. Jutsu Kogeikai (Japanese Association of Craftsmen), 1935. 1 sheet. (text). 18 x 15.5 cm. Illustrated original paperback (edges rubbed, somewhat stained, joints somewhat chipped). This rare exhibition catalog contains drawings by the Japanese artists Nobuyuki Shimizu, Yasunori Suzuki and Ichiro Fukuzawa (1898-1992). The painters exhibited drawings made on a journey through Manchuria and Mongolia in Ginza, Tokyo in November 1935. Ichiro Fukuzawa, represented here with 9 drawings, is credited with establishing Surrealism in the Japanese art scene of the early 1930s. - Stained endpapers, block, broken several times due to oxidized stapling, slightly browned, slightly stained in places. VAT: *