May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

TAKENOBU IGARASHI (1944- )

DESIGN. 1976.


28 3/4x40 1/2 inches, 73x102 3/4 cm. Mitsumura Printing Company, [Tokyo].
Condition A- / A: minor creases in image; minor abrasions at edges. Paper.

Takenobu 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 the 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.