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TADANORI YOKOO (1936- ) A LA MAISON DE M.CIVECAWA. 1965. 401/2x283/4 inches. Condition A. Silk-screen. Hand signed, inscribed and numbered (15/20) by the artist in pencil. Framed. It is extremely rare to find a group of posters from early on in Tadanori Yokoo's career. In the early days of his poster career printing runs were short and few were ever kept. Yokoo initiated an artistic revolution in Japan, introducing pop art into Japanese graphics. From 1965, when he first found his trademark style, he produced crazy images, mixing Japanese and Western imagery with the most daring and improbable lay-out. Recognized throughout the world as one of the masters of post war creation, his style is unique, independent of trend or current, constantly evolving and always flamboyant. Here, for the "Aukoku Buto Ha" dance company Yokoo begins a long collaboration with the avant-garde Tokyo theater and dance movement. Catalogue raisonees of Yokoo make it difficult to determine whether this image was actually his first poster, or A Climax at the Age of 29. Both posters were printed in the same year and both bear many graphic similarities to one another. The poster bears traditional Japanese imagery, such as the rising sun (one of Yokoo's favorite motifs) and the great wave, along with a depiction of the Japanese Bullet Train, and an exquisite mixture of classical Western painting: "Gabirelle Distole and Her Sister" an anonymous French painting of the Fontainebleau School. Yokoo p. 68 no. 279.
