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| Artist: | Takasawa Keiichi — 高沢圭一 |
| Title: | Chrysanthemum Morning Dew — 菊のしら露 |
| Series: | Pictures of Women — 女絵 |
| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 37472 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Sunday, 27 March 2005
Lithograph
高沢 圭一
（たかざわ・けいいち）菊のしら露
リトグラフ
初めてこの作品を見たときにおもわずゾクッとしました。
カミソリのように鋭く、そして妖艶な作品です。
挿し絵など風俗画を得意とされていただけに、スッキリとデフォルメされ、洗練された構図はすばらしく、どこにも無駄な線は見いだせません。
時代を感じさせないモダーンさも、特筆すべきですね
無所属、パリ個展、朝日賞他。
婦人公論表紙絵
昭和５９年、６９歳にて没。 |
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| Artist Bio: |
Takasawa Keiichi was born in Gunma prefecture in 1914. In 1936 he dropped out of Nihon University school of technology, and subsequently he studied with Fujita Tsugeharu, who strongly influenced him. In 1937 he joined the Army News Department in Shanghai.
In 1939 he won the Asahi award for one of his paintings. After the war he started making illustrations for women's magazines, and he was the author of A pictorial story of the kimono (1947), and of Women of Japan (1955). He also made woodblock prints, often based on his paintings. In 1974 an 1975 he had two major exhibitions in Paris. In 1977 an important publication on his paintings, Takasawa Keiichi ga shu appeared.
The slender, long necked beauty often appeared in his works was said to be his wife.
たかざわ・けいいち 大正３年群馬県生まれ 日大芸術学科中退 挿絵を描くかたわら現代美人画（油絵）の制作に情熱を注ぎ各地で個展 1974年パリのバンドーム画廊で「花と蝶」と題する個展を開き話題を集める 1975年フランス ル・サロン展で受賞 「婦人公論」の表紙絵を担当する 1976年随筆「画になる女」第一回日本随筆家協会賞受賞 |
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