Lot 8924: Property from Various Owners

Hanging scroll, colors on silk; the two characters printed using the katazome stencil dyeing method on an ivory ground within a wide border tinted dove gray.
17 1/2 x 8 1/4in (44.4 x 21cm)

Designated a Living National Treasure in 1956, Serizawa was a leading figure in the mingei movement. Although he achieved his greatest fame as a textile designer, Serizawa also worked in several other media, producing brilliantly colored stencil-dyed prints and paintings in both the hanging scroll and folding screen formats. For other examples, see: Joe Earle, Serizawa (Yale University Press, 2009).

Exhibited:
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, November 24, 1976 - February 14, 1977, no. 128.