Kumi SUGAI![]() |
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Kumi Sugai was born 1919 in Kobe. He initially worked as a designer for Hankyu Railway Corporation, where he created the logo for Hankyu Braves, one of the first Japanese professional baseball teams. He also studied Japanese-style painting with Teii Nakamura, but in 1952 moved to France where his first solo exhibition at Galerie Craven won considerable praise. In 1955, Sugai started to work with prints, of which he produced about 400 throughout his life. He won the Print First Prize at the Ljubljana International Print Exhibition in 1959, and the Grand Prix of the Sao Paolo Triennial in 1965. Sugai died in 1996, at the age of 77. |
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The gallery scene of the 1958 movie “Bonjour Tristesse,” by the way, gives a nice impression of Sugai’s early solo exhibitions. Sugai, who entered the international post-war art stage to gather immense successes as an abstract painter, to me has always been an admirable role model and teacher, as his example taught me about the complex relationships between publishers and artists. As a result, we were able to publish more than 70 of his geometrical-abstract prints during the 1970s-80s. |
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![]() "Signal E" 1976 Silkscreen Sheet size:40.5x28.5cm Ed.150 Signed |
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![]() "Portrait B" 1976 Silkscreen Sheet size:40.5x28.5cm Ed.150 Signed |
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![]() "Portrait E" 1976 Silkscreen Sheet size:40.5x28.5cm Ed.150 Signed |
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![]() "Scramble A" 1976 Toppan, silkscreen Sheet size:40.5x28.5cm Ed.150 Signed |
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![]() "Scramble F" 1976 Toppan, silkscreen Sheet size:40.5x28.5cm Ed.150 Signed |
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![]() "Blue Star" 1976 Multiple (acryl and silkscreen) 10.0×7.0×2.0cm Ed. 75 Signed on the case by the artist |
![]() "Red Sun" 1976 Multiple (acryl and silkscreen, printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 10.0×7.0×2.0cm Ed. 150 Signed on the case by the artist |
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![]() "GUEST I" 1980 Silkscreen 57.0×38.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 298 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "GUEST II" 1980 Silkscreen 57.5×44.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 299 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "GUEST III" 1980 Silkscreen 62.0×46.5cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 300 (Abe Publishing) |
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![]() "GUEST IV" 1980 Silkscreen 60.0×46.5cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 301 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "GUEST V" 1980 Silkscreen 57.5×33.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 302 (Abe Publishing) |
"GROUP 1" 1980 Silkscreen 50.5×44.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 303 (Abe Publishing) |
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"GROUP 2" 1980 Silkscreen 48.0×33.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 304 (Abe Publishing) |
"GROUP 3" 1980 Silkscreen 54.0×38.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 305 (Abe Publishing) |
"GROUP 4" 1980 Silkscreen 53.0×40.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 306 (Abe Publishing) |
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"GROUP 4-B" 1980 Silkscreen 58.5×43.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 307 (Abe Publishing) |
"HOLIDAY 1" 1978 Silkscreen 22.0×16.0cm Ed. 250 Signed Raisonné No. 282 (Abe Publishing) |
"HOLIDAY 2" 1978 Silkscreen 22.0×16.0cm Ed. 250 Signed Raisonné No. 283 (Abe Publishing) |
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"HOLIDAY 3" 1978 Silkscreen 22.0×16.0cm Ed. 250 Signed Raisonné No. 284 (Abe Publishing) |
"HOLIDAY 4" 1978 Silkscreen 22.0×16.0cm Ed. 250 Signed Raisonné No. 285 (Abe Publishing) |
"HOLIDAY 5" 1978 Silkscreen 22.0×16.0cm Ed. 250 Signed Raisonné No. 286 (Abe Publishing) |
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![]() "SIGNAL A" 1976 Silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) Image size: 34.0×14.0cm Ed. 150 Signed SOLD |
![]() "SIGNAL C" 1976 Silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) Image size: 33.0×19.0cm Ed. 150 Signed |
![]() "SIGNAL D" 1976 Silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) Image size: 31.5×22.0cm Ed. 150 Signed |
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![]() "SIGNAL G" 1976 Silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) Image size: 31.5×22.0cm Ed. 150 Signed |
![]() "SCRAMBLE D" 1976 Letterpress and silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 24.0×35.5cm Ed. 150 Signed |
![]() "SCRAMBLE E" 1976 Letterpress and silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 35.5×25.0cm Ed. 150 Signed Raisonné No. 267 (Abe Publishing) SOLD |
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![]() "SCRAMBLE F" 1976 Letterpress and silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 36.0×25.0cm Ed. 150 Signed |
![]() "SCRAMBLE G" 1976 Letterpress and silkscreen (printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 24.0×35.5cm Ed. 150 Signed |
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![]() "BALLE" 1976 Silkscreen Image size: 15.0×10.0cm Framed size: 32.0×26.0cm Ed. 200 Signed Raisonné No. 271 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "ROUTE" 1976 Silkscreen Image size: 15.0×10.0cm Framed size: 32.0×26.0cm Ed. 200 Signed Raisonné No. 272 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "Festival 3" 1980 Silkscreen Image size: 13.5×9.6cm Framed size: 32.0×26.0cm Ed. 1000 Signed Raisonné No. 312 (Abe Publishing) |
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![]() "Red and Black" 1976 Silkscreen Image size: 10.0×10.0cm Framed size: 27.0×22.0cm Ed. 2000 Stamp signed Raisonné No. 245 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "VARIATION" 1976 Silkscreen Image size: 10.0×10.0cm Sheet size: 16.0×16.0cm Ed. 500 Signed Raisonné No. 248 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "ETOILE" 1980 Silkscreen Image size: 15.0×10.0cm Framed size: 32.0×26.0cm Ed. 200 Signed Raisonné No. 270 (Abe Publishing) |
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![]() "ESPACE ROUGE" 1984 Silkscreen 19.5×14.5cm Ed. 500 Stamp signed Raisonné No. 317 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "Festival" 1976 Silkscreen Image size: 20.0×15.0cm Framed size: 44.0×36.5cm Ed. 750 Signed Raisonné No. 247 (Abe Publishing) |
![]() "Kumi Sugai `76" (Gendai Hanga Center) 1976 Silkscreen(printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 78.5×55.0cm Signed by Kumi Sugai On panel |
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![]() "Kumi Sugai `76" (Gendai Hanga Center) 1976 Silkscreen(printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 78.5×55.0cm Signed by Kumi Sugai On panel |
![]() "Kumi Sugai `76" (Gendai Hanga Center) 1976 Silkscreen(printed by Ryoichi Ishida) 78.5×55.0cm Signed by Kumi Sugai On panel |
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