1974 JAPANESE ABSTRACT PAINTING "A WOMANS FACE" by SHIGERU TANIGUCHI (Chac)

Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii this 1974 Japanese painting that is untitled but depicts an abstract female face and is signed by Shigeru Taniguchi. The Japanese paintings and prints that were consigned with me were brought back to Hawaii in the late 1970s from Tokyo. As you may have noticed the artist signed Sigeru vs. Shigeru but my Asian art appraiser told me that the artist back then was using the Japanese Romanization system to translate his name and later signed Shigeru. As you can see in the biography of the artist below he only started his career in 1974 so this must have been one of his earliest pieces.

Measurements:

Painting 16 inches x 16 inches

Paper 21 inches x 20 inches

More about the artist:

Taniguchi Shigeru (谷口茂) was born in Fukuoka, Kyûshû in 1948. After relocating to Tokyo in 1974, he began working for a commercial printing company while pursuing art part-time. Briefly, he studied lithography at the Japan Artist's Union in Tokyo, but afterwards worked independently at the Shin Nihon Zokei workshop.

Taniguchi's prints have been accepted by many biennales and have been widely exhibited in and outside of Japan. His works are located in various public and private collections, including the Cincinnati Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Warsaw Museum of Modern Arts, and Osaka National Museum of Art.

In 1979, Taniguchi was awarded a prize at the Japan Art Festival in Osaka. He used the money to purchase a Nikon camera and began to incorporate photographic images into his printmaking. Taniguchi follows the Japanese art scene, visiting galleries and attending exhibitions, but he also admires artists in the West, such as Man Ray and Jasper Johns. Taniguchi has also produced a large number of oils on canvas-abstract designs with waves or streams of radiant, bright colors.

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Condition: 

a scratch left side of face and couple of small dirt spots in places and minor mat burn, otherwise in good condition