Yasutake FUNAKOSHI |
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Born 1912 in Iwate Prefecture, Yasutake Funakoshi graduated in 1939 from the Tokyo University of the Arts and participated in the founding of the Shinseisaku Kyokai art association. Funakoshi taught himself to work in marble. After the war, he converted to Catholicism and designed the monument of the Twenty-Six Martyrs in Nagasaki, which won him the Kotaro Takamura Prize. Funakoshi was also honored with the Teijiro Nakahara Prize and the Bungei Sensho Award. In 1987, he suffered a stroke which left him in a wheelchair, with only his left hand allowing him to continue to work. He passed away in 2002. |
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When he was still alive, Funakoshi once confined to me that there was one thing he would like to have included into his biography: that was a joint exhibition with Shunsuke Matsumoto (1912-1948) at Kawatoku Gallery (Morioka) in 1941. With Matsumoto, who was a fellow student of Funakoshi’s at Morioka Middle School, Funakoshi had forged a lasting friendship. Even today, there is an exhibition room jointly dedicated to Matsumoto and Funakoshi at the Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art which in itself is already worth the trip from Tokyo to Iwate. Katsura Funakoshi, his second son, also is a sculptor. |
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 "Face of a Woman" Lithograph Image size: 18.0x14.0cm Sheet size: 38.2x28.5cm Ed.30 Signed |
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 "Young Woman A" 1984 Lithograph 51.0×39.0cm Ed. 170 Signed |
 "Young Woman B" 1984 Lithograph 48.5×37.0cm Ed. 170 Signed |
 "St. Clara" 1984 Lithograph 51.0×42.0cm Ed. 170 Signed |
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 "St. Clara" 1982 Lithograph 31.5×20.0cm Ed. 175 Signed |
 "Young Woman" 1984 Lithograph 28.0×23.0cm E.A. Signed |
 "Ms. A" 1982 Copperplate print 24.0×19.4cm Ed. 100 Signed SOLD |
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 "Face of a Young Woman" 1982 Copperplate print Image size: 9.7×8.2cm Sheet size: 36.7×29.8cm Embossed signature |
 "Profile of a Young Woman" 1982 Copperplate print 9.3×7.5cm Ed. 150 Signed |
 "Young Woman" 1982 Copperplate print 11.7×9.5cm Ed. 150 Signed |
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 "Face of a Girl" 1979 Bronze relief 12.0cm (diameter) |
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 Exhibitions (Japanese only)2005 125th Gallery exhibition: Yasutake Funakoshi & Tatsuoki Nanbata, Dec 16-Dec 28, 2005 1999 54th Gallery exhibition: The Printed Works of Painters, Apr 2-Apr 17, 1999 1998 48th Gallery exhibition: Fall Exhibition: From the Collection, Sep 25-Oct 24, 1998 1997 26th Gallery exhibition: Copperplate Print Selection 3, Apr 1-Apr 10, 1997
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