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桂 ゆき Yuki KATSURA 無題

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Work no. UT0049
Artist 桂 ゆき Yuki KATSURA
Work title 無題
Price ¥1,500,000
  • 制作年/技法:キャンバスにミックストメディア
  • サイズ:27×22.5cm
  • サイン有無/状態:サイン有/大体良好
  • 額の有無:有

Artist

桂 ゆき Yuki KATSURA

桂ゆき(1913〜1991)は、コラージュや油彩を中心に、戦前から戦後の前衛美術のなかで制作を続けた洋画家です。東京に生まれ、女子校時代には日本画を学び、卒業後は洋画のアトリエやアヴァン・ガルド洋画研究所で修行を重ねました。

1935年、近代画廊での個展でコラージュを発表し、以後、新聞紙やコルク、布、紅絹など日常の素材を画面に組み込む作風を起点に、一貫して独自の表現を展開しました。1938年には、吉原治良らとともに二科の九室会に参加し、戦後には三岸節子らと女流画家協会の結成に加わるなど、同時代の画家たちとともに前衛的な活動を続けました。1940年代から50年代には児童書の装丁や挿画も手がけ、寓意やユーモアを帯びた社会風刺的な作品群を制作しています。1956年から約5年間、パリを拠点にヨーロッパやアメリカに滞在し、1961年の帰国後は、第6回日本国際美術展で『異邦人』を出品して優秀賞を受賞しました。

著作としては、1962年刊行の『女ひとり原始部落に入る アフリカ・アメリカ体験記』(光文社)があり、1963年に毎日出版文化賞を受けています。1966年には第7回現代日本美術展で『ゴンベとカラス』が最優秀賞を受け、1974年には随筆『狐の大旅行』『続・狐の大旅行』を刊行しました。晩年の1985年には、伊奈ギャラリーで個展「紅絹のかたち」を開き、紅絹を用いた半立体の作品を発表しています。

1991年に亡くなったのち、下関市立美術館で回顧展が開催されました。2013年、生誕100年を記念して東京都現代美術館と下関市立美術館で回顧展「生誕100年 桂ゆき-ある寓話」が開催され、東京での初の包括的な個展となりました。戦前から晩年まで、コラージュを軸に油彩や紅絹造形へと表現の幅を広げながら制作を続け、生前・没後を通じて各地の美術館で作品が鑑賞されています。

Yuki KATSURA (1913–1991) was a Western-style painter who worked primarily in collage and oil, sustaining her practice within Japan's avant-garde art from the prewar through the postwar years. Born in Tokyo, she studied Japanese-style painting while in girls' school and, after graduation, continued her training in Western painting ateliers and at an avant-garde institute of Western-style painting.

In 1935 she introduced collage in a solo exhibition at the Kindai Gallery and, from that point on, built a consistent body of work around everyday materials such as newspaper, cork, cloth, and red silk. In 1938 she joined the Nine Rooms Society (Kyushitsukai) within the Nika Association, together with Jiro YOSHIHARA and others, and after the war took part in founding the Women's Artists Association with Setsuko MISONO and others, pursuing avant-garde activity alongside her contemporaries. From the 1940s through the 1950s she also designed and illustrated children's books, producing a body of socially satirical work marked by allegory and humor. From 1956 she spent roughly five years based in Paris, traveling in Europe and the United States, and after returning in 1961 exhibited "The Stranger" at the 6th Japan International Art Exhibition, receiving an excellence award.

Among her publications is A Woman Alone Enters a Primitive Tribe: An Account of Africa and America (Kobunsha, 1962), which received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award in 1963. In 1966 "Gombe and Crows" won the grand prize at the 7th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art, and in 1974 she published the essay collections The Fox's Long Journey and The Fox's Long Journey, Continued. In 1985, late in her career, she held the solo exhibition "Forms in red silk" at the INAX Gallery, presenting semi-sculptural works made with red silk.

After her death in 1991, a retrospective was held at the Shimonoseki City Art Museum. In 2013, marking the centennial of her birth, the retrospective "Centennial retrospective: Yuki Katsura — A parable" was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and the Shimonoseki City Art Museum, constituting her first comprehensive solo exhibition in Tokyo. From the prewar years through her late period, she continued to work, expanding from collage into oil painting and red-silk sculpture, and her works have been shown in museums before and after her lifetime.

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