Isao Utsumiya 宇 津宮 (Né en 1945) - Portrait Coloré (vendu sans prix de réserve)

We present to you a Gouache and Watercolor work on paper depicting an abstract portrait by the Japanese painter Isao Utsumiya 宇 津宮 (born in 1945).

Theme: Colorful composition with a reclining figure

Title: Genten.

Artist: Isao Utsumiya (宇 津宮 功) born in 1945

Technique: Gouache on paper.

Signature: Signed in ink at the bottom right.

Utsumiya, handwritten inscription in Japanese on the back.

Total format: 65.2 x 50.1 cm.

Condition: Good overall condition, colors fresh.

Isao Utsumiya (宇津宮 功) is a Japanese painter, sculptor and lithographer born on 28 March 1945 in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. After earning a degree in visual arts from Musashino Art University, he settled permanently in France in 1967. He then continued his lithography studies until 1969 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Married to ceramist and lithographer Toshie Utsumiya, he shares his life and his work today between his studios in Villiers-sur-Marne and Fitou, in the Aude. From the early 1970s, his talent was recognized with the Silver Prize at the Europe Prize in Ostend (1971) and in Tokyo (1973), followed by the International Painting Prize of Vitry-sur-Seine in 1981. His style is characterized by free, lush, dreamlike figuratism, mixing vivid colors with a fantastical universe populated by hybrid characters and objects. Over his career, he has regularly exhibited in France, Belgium and Japan, notably at the Salon Comparaisons and the FIAC. His works are included in major public collections, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Cérès-Franco cooperative-museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, and the Iwate Museum of Art.