May 05, 2003 - Sale 1970

Sale 1970 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
TAKENOBU IGARASHI (1944-) DESIGN. 1976.
401/2x281/2 inches.
Condition A-: minor tears and creases in margins; minor creases in image. Paper.
Takenoba was born in 1944, and studied in Japan and later at UCLA. After California he returned to Japan and opened his own studio in 1970. His reputation extends to both sides of the Pacific Ocean as he has designed bags for Museum of Modern Art, graphics for Suntory and Seibu (typography for the trendy Parco branch) and the poster for the 1985 Tsukuba exhibition. Using flat tones and bold geometric letters, his creations, as evident here, are always well structured and highly readable.