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KEY SATO (1906-1978). Mountain landscape. Oil...

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KEY SATO (1906-1978). Mountain landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Dimensions : 65 x 80 cm. Provenance: Estate of Monsieur Louis Thirion, furniture from the private mansion built in 1923 by Gibert et Ogé, which has remained in the family ever since. Key Sato (1906-1978) was a Japanese painter belonging to the École de Paris and part of the second wave of lyrical abstraction. He was born on October 28, 1906 in Oita, Japan, and died on May 8, 1978. Sato studied fine art in Tokyo, then moved to Paris from 1930 to 1934, where he studied at the Académie Colarossi. He was inspired by cubism and abstraction during his stay in Paris. Sato's works have been featured in various exhibitions and auctions. The Ita Prefectural Museum of Art organized a retrospective exhibition of his work in 1979.