YUTAKA OHASHI, (Japanese/American, 1923-1989), Bridge

YUTAKA OHASHI
(Japanese/American, 1923-1989)
Bridge #1
1964, mixed media: oil and paper collage on canvas
signed Ohashi, l.c..; inscribed verso Yutaka Ohashi / 1964 / "Bridge #1"
35 1/2 x 46 1/2 in., frame: 37 x 48 in.

Provenance: By descent through a son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Exhibitions: - Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA exhibition label verso.

Other Notes: Born in Japan in 1923, Yutaka Ohashi began his studies at Tokyo University of The Arts, before joining the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1950-55. He moved to New York in 1959 after receiving a Guggenheim fellowship, and it was in New York that he began a fruitful exchange of ideas with some of the leading Abstract Expressionists of the time. This dialogue between traditional Japanese painting and the themes and styles employed by the Abstract Expressionists can be found in much of his later work, including in the present lot.