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SHOZO NAGANO Untitled.
Oil on canvas stretched and mounted on cut, geometric-shaped wood, 1978. 1155x1740 mm; 45½x68½ inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower center verso.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Nagano (1928-2008) was a Japanese-born artist who studied at Kanazawa Fine Arts University during the turbulent era of the military occupation of Japan by the Allied Powers after its defeat in World War II and began showing his work in Tokyo galleries as part of the "Timism" group of Japanese abstract artists. In the early 1960s he decided to explore the life of an expatriate artist and sailed across the Pacific on a tramp steamer bound for Santiago, Chile. By 1965 he had settled in New York, living in a tenement on the Lower East Side, unable to afford canvas he painted on bed sheets. By this time, he had begun experimenting with the geometric, shaped canvas format that has come to characterize his work and for which his popularity increased at galleries and public collections in New York and throughout the United States.
