Izumi Kato Untitled 1 Offset Print, Edition of 300, 60 x 40 cm, Unsigned, New and Unframed
Izumi Kato Untitled 1 Offset Print, Edition of 300, 60 x 40 cm, Unsigned, New and Unframed
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A Face Older Than Words
One of Kato's frontal heads, eyes wide and crown alive with colour, split across two panels. A strong, affordable way into his primordial world.
Best for: Collectors of contemporary Japanese painting starting or extending a Kato wall
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New and unused, kept flat as a loose sheet and never framed. No marks described. Not yet examined in hand.
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Izumi Kato's Untitled 1: an offset print on a 60 x 40 cm sheet, from an edition of 300, unsigned, new and unused, offered unframed.
The Piece
Izumi Kato, born in Shimane in 1969, paints figures that seem older than language: wide-eyed, simplified beings worked directly with his hands rather than a brush, and carved in wood, stone and soft vinyl. His heads and bodies have made him one of the most distinctive Japanese artists of his generation, shown internationally and collected widely.
Untitled 1 reproduces one of his great frontal heads. The crown is a swirling mass of colour, white, mustard, violet and teal, with small coloured spheres floating above it like planets against an oxblood ground. Two large ringed eyes look straight out. The image is split across two stacked panels, so the face joins below the eyes, where a long nose of yellow, red and orange runs down to a red mouth, the cheeks dark blue against black hair.
Along the white foot of the sheet, PERROTIN and IZUMI KATO are printed in small capitals.
Details
- Artist: Izumi Kato
- Title: Untitled 1
- Medium: Offset print on paper
- Edition: 300
- Signature: Unsigned
- Sheet: 60 x 40 cm (23.6 x 15.7 in), portrait
- Frame: Unframed; any frame seen elsewhere is not included
Condition
- New and unused; kept flat as a loose sheet since purchase, never framed.
- No marks or creases are described.
- The photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as an edition print of 300, unsigned, as the page states; we present it as exactly that. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing on an acid-free mount, away from direct sunlight and damp.
Delivery from Japan
The sheet travels flat between rigid boards, never rolled, packed by hand in Japan and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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