Nobumitsu Fukui (Japanese American, b. 1942), Brown Diamond

Oil on canvas, 1969, signed and dated to verso, inscribed "#24" to verso, retaining Westinghouse Art Collection label to stretcher, framed. Stretcher size 68 x 68 in.; Frame dimensions 69 x 69 in. Ex Westinghouse Art Collection Nobumitsu Fukui, also known as Nobu Fukui, is a Japanese American painter, printmaker, and mixed-media artist born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1942. He immigrated to the United States in 1962 and settled in New York City in 1963, studying at the Art Students League of New York from 1964 to 1965. Influenced by Japanese avant-garde movements, particularly the Gutai Art Association, as well as American Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Fukui developed an experimental practice incorporating painting, collage, found imagery, and mixed media. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Stephen Haller Gallery and Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York. His work has also been featured at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Vermont, and the Takasaki City Museum in Japan. His artwork has been represented in institutional collections, including the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and the Roland Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam. Some minor age cracking to white ground; some surface grime; minor abrading to surface; wear and corner separation to original frame.

Estimate:£37.8

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