Key Hiraga (1936-2000), Window

Window
1998

signed and dated 98 on the middle right
acrylic on canvas

162 x 130.3 cm (63 3/4 x 51 5/16 in)

Provenance
Private Collection, France
Selling Exhibition: Bonhams, New York, The Spirit of Burai: The Life and Times of Key Hiraga, 5 - 20 April 2018, Lot 45
Private Collection, Asia
Sale: Christie's, Hong Kong, First Open, 29 March 2019, Lot 71
Acquired from the above by the present owner

平賀敬
窗
壓克力畫布
1998年作

簽名：Key Hiraga 98（右中）

來源
法國私人收藏
私洽展覽：紐約邦瀚斯，「無賴派之精神：平賀敬的生活和時代」，2018年4月5 - 20日，作品編號45
亞洲私人收藏
拍賣：香港佳士得，「First Open」，2019年3月29日，拍品編號71
現藏家得自上述來源

The career of Key Hiraga represents one of singular achievement in the world of Japanese modern and contemporary art. Born in Tokyo and raised in Morioka, the young artist from an early age internalized a love for nightlife and the raffish quarters of society, a fascination that drove his life and his art until his last days.

Through his works, we see Hiraga discovering themes, images and styles that would define his career: the anxious male avatar who would become his alter-ego (sometimes known as Mr. K, elsewhere known as Mr. H.), the interlocking forms and overlapping narratives, the compartmentalization of the composition, and the apparent influence of European abstraction. We see these thematic and stylistic choices come to life in his breath-taking canvases.

在日本現當代藝術領域中，平賀敬的藝術成就具有非凡地位。生於東京，長於盛岡市，年輕時期的平賀敬對於燈紅酒綠的夜生活深深著迷，這種對綺麗生活的迷戀，一直到晚年仍是他創作的靈感來源。

透過平賀敬的作品，我們可以看到他當時探究豐富主題、嘗試創作不同圖像和風格的脈絡，這些元素都塑造了他獨特的創作風格，像是畫中焦慮的男性角色（有時稱為K先生或H先生）是藝術家的第二分身，聯鎖交織的繪畫形式，重疊交錯的敘事手法，空間構圖的分割以及歐洲抽象主義的影響。