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Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1921 - d. 2008

Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi was born in Seattle, WA in 1921 during a family business trip to the U.S. She was raised and educated outside of Tokyo, Japan where she attended the prestigious Rikkyo Jogakuin, Futaba-kojo-Futaba-kai school. As a young woman Okoshi lived through the bombings and destruction of her home and way of life during WWII. She recalls, "Everything was destroyed, destroyed everywhere, people with nothing, nothing to eat, nowhere to live."

On a train from Tokyo to Nagasaki, Okoshi passed through Hiroshima after the bombing. The military police ordered her to shut the blinds but she peeked through. She saw that there was nothing. Faced with nothing herself, Okoshi decided to leave Japan. She fought authorities to recognize her as an American citizen by birth and came back to Seattle, WA where she began working, studying, and making art with Fay Chang and Nicholas Damascus at Seattle University and Henry Frye at the Modern Art Museum of Seattle. Okoshi also found inspiration in the work of Mark Toby, another popular Seattle-based artist who incorporated Japanese sumi painting, brush gesture and calligraphy into his Abstract Expressionist paintings.

Okoshi made her way to New York in 1956 where she worked as a beautician by day and spent her nights in her studio in the West Village. She studied with Jacob Lawrence at the New School Painting Workshop and sang in the choir at the Japanese American United Church on 143rd Street, where she met George Mukai. Mukai remembers Okoshi working furiously at her studio any time she could. He was also new to New York, an artist, and had his own war experience.

Mukai was born in 1919 just outside San Diego. His father struggled against Alien Land Laws that constantly threatened his security as a farmer. After Pearl Harbor, Mukai and his brothers enlisted in the military. The rest of their family was broken up and detained along with 110,000 fellow Japanese Americans in concentration camps across the nation for the duration of the war. Mukai joined the 442nd Regiment, an all Japanese American unit that by the end of the war had received the most decorations and sustained the highest casualties. Because of Mukai's military service, he was allowed to visit his imprisoned family members under supervision.

After the war Mukai attended the Gepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA under the G.I. Bill. He grew interested in Realist painting that would "pop" off the canvas. In 1950 he moved to New York where he joined the Art Students League and worked restoring Chinese Antiques in exchange for studio space. During the war Mukai collected material and equipment and assumed that he would paint about his war experience. Once he returned however, Mukai felt that he had experienced the war enough already and did not need to paint it. He focused on still-lifes and streetscapes and only painted two versions of one war painting, "In a Twinkling of an Eye" (1973), one exhibited here.

While Mukai was interested in Realism, Okoshi embraced an Abstract aesthetic popular after the war. Asian and Asian American Abstract Expressionists are an often-overlooked part of this international artistic movement.


"Sunset of Ruin," (1960) Okoshi's favorite painting, is representative of her early work. Drenched in an impenetrable fog inhabited by ghostly scratches, it is at once terrifying and serene. A small patch of red punctuates caked and cracking rectangular forms obscured by wafting blurs of pink, brown, and grey.

In 1976 Okoshi married Mukai. By then she was exhibiting solo shows internationally and was a member of the Westbeth Artists Community in the West Village. Over the course of the 1960's Okoshi had developed a new style and technique that would come to define her work. Okoshi paints with oil on canvas and then places uniform ellipses of washi paper imported from Japan she has cut and colored into a grid on top of the paint. This meticulous and exacting process takes immense amounts of time. This technique is used in two numbered series of paintings entitled Persistent Light and Plenum that Okoshi has been making for decades.
The Persistent Light and Plenum series evoke rain spattering on a window with an almost pixilated effect. Like in her earlier work recognizable forms appear to be just beyond sight. They emerge like the shadows of ruins through the smoke of a bombed out city. Yet they also evoke a calm bustle - an eerily mundane optimism. Light and color still find us through a settling screen of dust. This is not enduring light, able to withstand pressure, pain, or obscurity. Instead, Okoshi gives us persistent light: actively striving against obstacles in its way to make its message seen.

Okoshi's pieces engage questions of how parts become wholes and how particles become waves in a natural world we no longer understand as elegant and fully intelligible but perhaps we increasingly experience as sublime. The urban feel of Okoshi's work plays off this notion as well. The city is abuzz with movement that is dependent upon organization but is subversive of order. The dizzying interconnectivity of urban life is sublime even when in devastating ruin.

Okoshi's ellipses break up their own repetitive grid. They stand as both layered individuals and a seamless flat whole. Plenum means full, and Okoshi is able to show us the fullness of nothingness that is as soothing as it is haunting. She does not let us decide between the opposites and categories we project onto her work. Instead she insists on an alternative based on the ambivalence of lived experience.

Okoshi and Mukai have each inhabited multiple conflicting sides of global armed conflict: Japanese and American, enemy and ally, victor and victim. Their work and their stories resist attempts to carve the world up into "us" and "them." Okoshi offers a world beyond binary divisions and Mukai shows us the destruction possible "in a twinkling of an eye" when humanity is disregarded as "other." Rooted in personal experience, these works point to the implications and violence of an either/or fantasy of the world. Together, their experience and the experiences of Japanese, Asian, and Pacific Islander American communities linked together by wars and migrations has required persistence. Recognizing this persistence gives us new ways to see.

- Dylan Yeats, curator


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    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Raproachment
      Oct. 31, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Raproachment

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Raproachment 1969 oil on canvas 50 h x 27.875 w in (127 x 71 cm) Signed to lower left 'Eugenia Okoshi'. Signed and titled to verso 'Sumiye Okoshi Raproachment'. Provenance: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco | Estate of Thomas Downing | Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Jun. 19, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $800 - $1,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled ink and colored pencil on paper sight: 21.75 h x 16.75 w in (55 x 43 cm) Signed to lower right 'Eugenia Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, My Village; Magnolia Blossom (three works)
      Jun. 19, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, My Village; Magnolia Blossom (three works)

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi My Village; Magnolia Blossom (three works) 2003 C-print sight: 7.5 h x 8.5 w in (19 x 22 cm) sight: 7.75 h x 9.5 w in (20 x 24 cm) sight: 7.75 h x 11.5 w in (20 x 29 cm) Exhibited: Flowers, 2003, Salmagundi Club, New York (one work) | We are the Nippon Club Photo Exhibition, 2003, The Nippon Club, New York (two additional works) This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      May. 30, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $800 - $1,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled ink, colored pencil and graphite on paper sight: 16.75 h x 21.75 w in (43 x 55 cm) Signed to lower right edge 'Sumiye Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Apr. 24, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $800 - $1,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled ink on paper sight: 21.75 h x 16.75 w in (55 x 43 cm) Signed to lower right 'Sumiye Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Los Angeles Modern Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, White on White
      Mar. 27, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, White on White

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi White on White oil on canvas 49 h x 43.5 w in (124 x 110 cm) Signed to lower right 'E. Sumiye Okoshi'. Signed and titled to verso 'Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi White on White'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Germination
      Mar. 07, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Germination

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Germination etching in colors image: 7.875 h x 5.875 w in (20 x 15 cm) sight: 9.75 h x 7.875 w in (25 x 20 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge '6/10 E. Sumiye Okoshi'. This work is number 6 from the edition of 10. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Ovals on Blue
      Mar. 06, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Ovals on Blue

      Est: $700 - $900

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Ovals on Blue ink and colored pencil on paper sight: 21.625 h x 16.75 w in (55 x 43 cm) Signed to lower edge 'Eugenia Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Fifteen Circles
      Feb. 14, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Fifteen Circles

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Fifteen Circles woodcut in colors sight: 5.625 h x 8.875 w in (14 x 23 cm) Signed to lower right 'E Sumiye Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Study in Movement
      Feb. 01, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Study in Movement

      Est: $800 - $1,200

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Study in Movement ink on paper sight: 21.75 h x 16.75 w in (55 x 43 cm) Signed to upper right edge 'Sumiye Okoshi'. Titled and inscribed to verso 'Study in Movement 22 x 17'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Wright
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Hatchings II
      Jan. 10, 2024

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Hatchings II

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi The Hatchings II etching in colors image: 7.625 h x 7.50 w in (19 x 19 cm) sight: 9.875 h x 9.625 w in (25 x 24 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge 'AP Sumiye Okoshi'. Titled to verso 'The Hatchings II'. This work is an artist's proof apart from the edition of unknown size. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Los Angeles Modern Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Silver Spheres on Blue
      Dec. 14, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Silver Spheres on Blue

      Est: $2,500 - $3,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Silver Spheres on Blue oil on canvas 50 h x 40 w in (127 x 102 cm) Estate stamp to verso. Provenance: Estate of the artist | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Composition with Red and Blue
      Nov. 30, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Composition with Red and Blue

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Composition with Red and Blue oil on canvas 18 h x 19 w in (46 x 48 cm) This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Los Angeles Modern Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Nov. 16, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $500 - $700

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled monoprint in colors image: 18.75 h x 24 w in (48 x 61 cm) sight: 20 h x 24 w in (51 x 61 cm) Signed to lower right edge 'Eugenia Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Spheres
      Nov. 03, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Spheres

      Est: $500 - $700

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Spheres 1973 woodcut image: 5 h x 18.875 w in (13 x 48 cm) sight: 5.75 h x 19.375 w in (15 x 49 cm) Signed and dated to lower edge '1973 Sumiye Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Oct. 27, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled oil on canvas 27.875 h x 24 w in (71 x 61 cm) Estate stamp to verso. Provenance: Estate of the artist | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Wright
    • EUGENIA SUMIYE OKOSHI (New York/Washington/Japan, 1921-2008), Abstract., Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”. Unframed.
      Oct. 18, 2023

      EUGENIA SUMIYE OKOSHI (New York/Washington/Japan, 1921-2008), Abstract., Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”. Unframed.

      Est: $800 - $1,200

      EUGENIA SUMIYE OKOSHI New York/Washington/Japan, 1921-2008 Abstract. Signed lower left and verso "Eugenia Okoshi".

      Eldred's
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Sep. 07, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled etching in colors image: 7.625 h x 7.5 w in (19 x 19 cm) sight: 9.875 h x 9.625 w in (25 x 24 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge '10/20 Eugenia S. Okoshi'. This work is number 10 from the edition of 20. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Los Angeles Modern Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Hatchings I
      Aug. 08, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Hatchings I

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi The Hatchings I etching in colors image: 7.625 h x 7.5 w in (19 x 19 cm) sight: 9.875 h x 9.625 w in (25 x 24 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge 'AP Sumiye Okoshi'. This work is an artist's proof apart from the edition of unknown size. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Wright
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Seedlings
      Jul. 27, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Seedlings

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi The Seedlings c. 1965 etching in colors image: 7.625 h x 7.5 w in (19 x 19 cm) sight: 9.875 h x 9.625 w in (25 x 24 cm) Signed to lower edge 'Sumiye Okoshi'. Titled to verso 'The Seedlings'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Jul. 12, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled acrylic on canvas board sight: 12.625 h x 17.875 w in (32 x 45 cm) Signed to lower right 'Sumiye Okoshi'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Wright
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Evening Glow
      Mar. 29, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Evening Glow

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Evening Glow oil and collage on canvas 59.875 h x 39.25 w in (152 x 100 cm) Titled to verso 'Evening Glow' with estate stamp. Provenance: Estate of the Artist | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Oil, Abstraction
      Mar. 11, 2023

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Oil, Abstraction

      Est: $1,000 - $2,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi (Japanese /American 1921-2008) Abstraction, mixed media on canvas, signed lower right, signed and inscribed 9 Patchin Place, NY verso, framed Dimensions: 55 x 48 in. image size, 56 x 49 in. as framed. Condition: Some scuffs and grime.

      Neue Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Cosmic Time #7
      Dec. 15, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Cosmic Time #7

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Cosmic Time #7 oil on canvas 42 h × 30 w in (107 × 76 cm) Signed to lower right 'Eugenia Okoshi'. Signed to verso 'S. Eugenia Okoshi'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Los Angeles Modern Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Rising Sun
      Dec. 07, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Rising Sun

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Rising Sun oil on canvas 60 h × 23.5 w in (152 × 60 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Plenum #5
      Dec. 07, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Plenum #5

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Plenum #5 mixed media on canvas 33.5 h × 33 w in (85 × 84 cm) Signed and titled to verso 'E. Sumiye Okoshi Plenum #5'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Oil, Abstraction
      Dec. 03, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Oil, Abstraction

      Est: $2,000 - $4,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi (Japanese /American 1921-2008)  Abstraction, mixed media on canvas, signed lower right, signed and inscribed 9 Patchin Place, NY verso, framed Dimensions: 55 x 48 in. image size, 56 x 49  in. as framed. Condition: Some scuffs and grime.

      Neue Auctions
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Oct. 13, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled mixed media on canvas 18 h × 20 w in (46 × 51 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Wright
    • EUGENIA OKOSHI (AMERICAN / JAPANESE, 1921-2008)
      Oct. 02, 2022

      EUGENIA OKOSHI (AMERICAN / JAPANESE, 1921-2008)

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      Large oil on canvas. Abstract Composition. Signed lower right. From a Nyack, NY collection.

      Clarke Auction Gallery
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Spheres
      Sep. 29, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Spheres

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Spheres oil and acrylic on canvas 40.25 h × 30 w in (102 × 76 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Okoshi oil on canvas abstract
      Sep. 14, 2022

      Eugenia Okoshi oil on canvas abstract

      Est: $700 - $900

      Eugenia Okoshi (Japanese/American 1921-2008), oil on canvas abstract, signed lower left, 50" x 36". NO in-house shipping for this lot.

      Pook & Pook Inc.
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Repetition
      Jun. 16, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Repetition

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Repetition etching image: 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm) sheet: 14.375 h × 11.625 w in (37 × 30 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge 'AP Sumiye Okoshi'. This work is an artist's proof apart from the edition of unknown size. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled
      Jun. 16, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled screenprint in colors on embossed paper image: 16 h × 22 w in (41 × 56 cm) sheet: 18.875 h × 24.5 w in (48 × 62 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Circles on Gold
      Jun. 15, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Circles on Gold

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Circles on Gold mixed media on canvas 30 h × 27.25 w in (76 × 69 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Blue, White and Yellow
      Jun. 15, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Blue, White and Yellow

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Blue, White and Yellow oil on canvas 50.25 h × 61.75 w in (128 × 157 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Abstract Composition
      Jun. 15, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Abstract Composition

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Abstract Composition oil on canvas 36 h × 30 w in (91 × 76 cm) Signed to lower left 'Eugenia Okoshi'. Signed and inscribed to verso 'Eugenia Okoshi 9 Patchin Place NY, NY U.S.A.'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Birds I
      Jun. 03, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, The Birds I

      Est: $500 - $700

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi The Birds I etching in colors image: 9.875 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm) sheet: 21 h × 15 w in (53 × 38 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge '3/25 S. E. Sumiye Okoshi'. This work is number 3 from the edition of 25. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Dead Sea
      Jun. 03, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Dead Sea

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Dead Sea oil on canvas 30 h × 40 w in (76 × 102 cm) Signed to lower right 'Eugenia Okoshi'. Signed and titled to verso 'Dead Sea Okoshi'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Spheres and dots
      Jun. 03, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Spheres and dots

      Est: $700 - $900

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Spheres and dots ink and colored pencil on paper 22 h × 17 w in (56 × 43 cm) Signed to lower right 'Sumiye Okoshi'. Signed to verso 'Eugenia Okoshi'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Abstraction
      Jun. 03, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Abstraction

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Abstraction 1965 oil on canvas 30 h × 24 w in (76 × 61 cm) Signed to lower left 'Eugenia Okoshi'. Signed and dated to verso 'Eugenia Okoshi 1965'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled (droplets and ropes)
      Jun. 02, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Untitled (droplets and ropes)

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Untitled (droplets and ropes) etching image: 9 h × 7.875 w in (23 × 20 cm) sheet: 16.75 h × 14 w in (43 × 36 cm) Signed and numbered to lower edge '2/5 Sumiye Okoshi'. This work is number 2 from the edition of 5. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Circles
      Jun. 02, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Circles

      Est: $600 - $800

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Circles 1975 screenprint in colors with etching and aquatint on embossed paper image: 23 h × 18 w in (58 × 46 cm) sheet: 26 h × 21.5 w in (66 × 55 cm) Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge '2/5 75 Sumiye Okoshi'. This work is number 2 from the edition of 5. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Plenum #20
      Jun. 02, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Plenum #20

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Plenum #20 oil and mixed media on canvas 44 h × 35 w in (112 × 89 cm) Signed and titled to verso 'Sumiye Okoshi Plenum #20'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Sphere
      Jun. 02, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Sphere

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Sphere oil on canvas 39 h × 19.5 w in (99 × 50 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Pastel Movement
      Jun. 02, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Pastel Movement

      Est: $700 - $900

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Pastel Movement ink and pastel on paper 22 h × 17 w in (56 × 43 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Silhouette
      Jun. 02, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Silhouette

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Silhouette oil and rice paper on canvas 45 h × 35.125 w in (114 × 89 cm) Signed to lower right 'Eugenia Okoshi'. Signed and titled to verso 'Okoshi Silhouette'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

      Rago Arts and Auction Center
    • EUGENIA SUMIYE OKOSHI Untitled.
      May. 12, 2022

      EUGENIA SUMIYE OKOSHI Untitled.

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      EUGENIA SUMIYE OKOSHI Untitled. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. 1210x1090 mm; 47 5/8x43 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto, and countersigned in ink, verso. Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey. Okoshi (1921-2008) was born in Seattle and at age seven returned with her family to Japan. Her father had been a Japanese performer with the Barnum & Bailey circus and later as an entrepreneur bought the first patent rights to neon lights in Japan, to illuminate up the Ginza district of Tokyo. Okoshi survived the destruction of World War II in Japan, but soon afterward decided to return to America. She encountered obstruction by U.S. authorities refusing to recognize her as an American citizen by birth, but ultimately returned to Seattle, where she studyied art at Seattle University and the Modern Art Museum of Seattle. Okoshi also found inspiration in the work of Mark Tobey, then Seattle-based before his return to Europe in the late 1930s, who incorporated Japanese sumi painting, brush gesture and calligraphy into his Abstract Expressionist paintings. Okoshi made her way to New York in 1956 where she worked as a beautician by day and spent her nights in her studio in the West Village. She studied with Jacob Lawrence at the New School Painting Workshop and sang in the choir at the Japanese American United Church on 143rd Street, where she met George Mukai. In 1976 Okoshi married Mukai who was also an artist. By then she was exhibiting in shows internationally and was an active member of the Westbeth Artists Community in the West Village.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Rising Sphere
      Apr. 21, 2022

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi, Rising Sphere

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi Rising Sphere oil on canvas 60 h × 23.5 w in (152 × 60 cm) Signed to verso 'E.S. Okoshi'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey. condition: Work is in good overall condition with surface soiling throughout and one area of minor scuffing to lower right quadrant. One pinhole to lower right edge. Work presents well. Framed without glazing measuring 61 x 24 inches.

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