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MINORU NIIZUMA Untitled.
Marble sculpture, 1972. 875x361x385 mm; 32 1/4x14x15 inches. Incised initial and dated underside of the base.
Ex-collection private collection, Chicago.
Niizuma (1930-1998) was a Japanese abstract sculptor. He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1955 before moving to New York in 1959 to establish himself as an artist. Niizuma worked mainly in marble, in designs that varied from geometric to organic, blending an influence of the Asian tradition and western contemporary minimalist art. He was a fine art instructor at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, 1964-70, and an adjunct professor of fine art at Columbia University, New York, 1972-84. Examples of his sculpture are held by many prominent public collections throughout the world, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
