Jiro Takamatsu

Lot #221: Jiro Takamatsu (Japanese, 1936-1998): "Perspective Box" Silkscreen, signed and numbered 56/100, dated '67, Tokyo Gallery, Ginza Japan label on verso; 21 x 36 in. (sight). Provenance: Ex Collection of Robertson and Mary Paige Alford, Norfolk, CT. Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00

Lot No. 100 Enlarge & Zoom Takamatsu Jiro(1936-) Lot No. 100 Title Space on a plane Technique oil on canvas Size 45.5×38.0cm framed Signature signed dated numbered No.890 and Tokyo Gallery label on the reverse Year 1979 Estimate JPY: 200,000 - 300,000 No Reserve USD: 2,100-3,200

Jiro Takamatsu (Japanese, b. 1936) Shadow of Brush signed, dated and inscribed 'JIRO TAKAMATSU 1966 NO. 141' (on thereverse) oil and a metal coat hook on panel overall 26 x 21¼ x 5 in. (66 x 54 x 12.7 cm.) Executed in 1966. Provenance Mathias Fels, Pangi. with Galleria d'Arte dell Naviglio, Milan. with Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo. with Gallery K, Washington D.C.

Jiro Takamatsu (Japanese,1936-1998) Untitled [Key in Shadow] Signed and dated "JIRO TAKAMATSU 1966" on the reverse, identifiedon labels from Tokyo Gallery, and Staempfli Gallery, Inc., New York, New York,affixed to the reverse. Oil and metal (hook) on board, 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (22 x 16 cm),unframed. Condition: Surface grime. Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Frank Stanton. N.B. Takamatsu was a founding member of the Hi Red Center, a groupof three artists who were a part of Tokyo's Fluxus movement in theearly 1960s and staged "happenings" at galleries and museums. (1)Takamatsu was influenced by Sartrean existentialism, and his worksinvestigate the ontology and epistemology of time, space, andexistence. The present work is from his Shadow Series (1965-1974), where heexamined the relationship between objects in the world and theirtraces (via imagined cast shadows), in an attempt to locate thereal subject of the artwork. The year Takamatsu began this series,he wrote of the nature of absence, "…Since there can be no"absence" without "existence," our task is to experiment in orderto see how far we may go from the realm of "existence." (2) 1. Munroe, Alexandra, Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Againstthe Sky , New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, p. 395. 2. Ibid., 374. Estimate $4,000-6,000 Surface grime, primarily to l.r. quadrant. May benefit from acleaning.

Lot No. 101 Enlarge & Zoom Takamatsu Jiro(1936-) Lot No. 101 Title #213 Shadow of a key Technique lacquer and hook on board Size 33.0×24.0×7.8cm Signature signed titled dated and Tokyo Gallery label on the reverse Year 1968 Estimate JPY: 1,300,000 - 1,800,000 USD: 13,700-18,900