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GENICHIRO INOKUMA Cross.
Etching on white wove paper, 1979. 178x120 mm; 7x4 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 10/50 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce etching.
Inokuma (1902-1993) was born Takamatsu, Japan, and studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. In 1936, Inokuma founded the Shinseisaku-ha-kyokai (New Creation Group) and began to exhibit frequently in Japan. He traveled to Paris in the late 1930 and worked briefly with Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and came into contact with Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Inokuma continued to exhibit with the New Creation Group in Japan through the early 1950s and came to New York in 1955, where he remained for more than two decades. Influence by New York School Abstract Expressionism and contemporary American geometric art, his style in New York shifted to abstraction. He produced large monochromatic canvases of mainly horizontal linear compositions that, although abstract, suggest city planning blueprints, ladders, rail tracks, derricks, cranes, urban maps and industrial landscapes, to which the current lot belongs stylistically. At the end of his career, he donated his remaining works to the city of Marugame, Japan, where the Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1991.
