Arimoto Toshio

Arimoto Toshio (1946-1985) Exhibition poster with head of a man Engraving on paper of the head of a man in tricorne-style hat, retrospective exhibition poster entitled in roman print Tosio Arimoto 1987 12/29-1/19 1988 Shibuya Seibu and with oblong seal of Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo Ginza, the print numbered in pencil 1857/1987 and stamped with red triangular seal To--good impression and condition 48.8 x 34.8cm.

Arimoto Toshio (1946-1985) Hareta hi no dekigoto (Incident on a fine day) Signed To and dated 1978 Tempera and mineral pigments on canvas; titled, dated and signed onverso by the artist 35¼ x 57¼in. (89.2 x 145.4cm.) Exhibited Takashimaya Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, "Asu e no gushoten" (Representational painting for the future), 1979.2 Lot Notes PUBLISHED: Arimoto Toshio zensakuhin 1973--1984 (Complete works of ArimotoToshio 1973--1984) (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1991), pl. 153. Arimoto's student trip to Italy in 1971 was his aesthetic coup defoudre. He abandoned abstraction and transmuted his Eastern andWestern sensibilities into a singular blend of Renaissance idiomand technique and traditional Japanese painting in mineralpigments. His experiment culminated in "My Piero della Francesca,"his thesis painting at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. Hecalled his dog "Siena." The head of the figure in this painting is a virtual cousin to theportraits of Sigismondo Malatesta by Piero (c. 1415-1492) in Riminiand in the Louvre. The irregular lines in the green background arepurposeful pentimenti. Arimoto explained in his diary that hediscarded left-over paint onto blank canvases. When the paintbecomes stains and takes on shape, he wrote, the canvases call meand I begin.

Lot No. 533 ARIMOTO Toshio SPRING lithograph signed and dated on the lower right numbered 270 on the lower left image size : 32.0×26.0cm 1981 JPY: 300,000 - 400,000

Magic of desktop ARIMOTO, Toshio Japanese Modern Prints, Portfolios andIllustration Books 150,000 yen - 200,000 yen 1982, etching, 19.2x12.1cm, signed, ed.82,sheet size 33.8x43.8cm, framed.

Day of Promise II ARIMOTO, Toshio Japanese Modern Prints, Portfolios and Illustration Books 150,000 yen - 200,000 yen 1983, etching, 16x6cm, signed, ed.77, sheet size 34.5x25cm, framed.