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Funada Tamaki, generally presented by museums as Gyokuju Funada, renewed Japanese painting on paper. Born in Kure in 1912, he turned to nihonga after discovering the tradition of Sōtatsu and Kōrin. He studied with Hayami Gyoshū and subsequently Kobayashi Kokei while pursuing new forms of expression alongside this artistic training.
Flowers (Image of Evening), a four-fold screen of 1938 in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, brings this exploration to a monumental format. Longleaf Pines, made in 1947 and preserved at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, similarly deploys colour across a paper screen. The retrospective held in Hiroshima in 2013 brought together around two hundred works, offering a broad museum perspective on an independent artistic trajectory.
This profile brings together identity references for Funada Tamaki and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Je Mischtechnik auf Papier auf Unterlage montiert.
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Je Mischtechnik auf Papier auf Unterlage montiert.
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