The Ishibashi Foundation Collection, which operates the
Artizon Museum, has a collection currently consisting of about 3,000 works, including modern Western art from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, modern Japanese art from the Meiji period (1868鈥1912) on, post-World War II Abstract paintings, early modern and modern art from Japan and East Asia, and Greek and Roman art. Throughout the year, we introduce selections from our collection. Special Section
YASUI Sotaro Yasui Sotaro (1888鈥1955) went through a long exploratory period after studying in France, before establishing his own style, in which he expressed the essence of his subject through the use of deform茅. His Seated Lady (1929), a recent Artizon Museum acquisition, is an important work, the first that showed the world what came to be called the 鈥淵asui style.鈥 This exhibition focuses on Seated Lady in introducing the continual transformations of Yasui鈥檚 work from his time in Europe until the last year of his life.