Contemporary Lacquer Object by Female Artist Sasai Fumie
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Directory: Artists: Lacquer: Contemporary: Item # 1502898
Directory: Artists: Lacquer: Contemporary: Item # 1502898
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23 Murasakino Monzen-cho
Kita-ward Kyoto 603-8216
tel.81-75-201-3497
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$6,000.00
An organic form like a flower or some under-sea creature in vibrant red by Sasai Fumie enclosed im tehorignal signed wooden box titled Mau (dervish) and dated Heisei 28 (2016). It is entirely hollow and light as a feather so easily hung on a wall. Hemp and layered lacquer, it is 54.5 x 45 x 8 cm (21 x 18 x 3-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition. Fumie uses the technique called kanshitsu (lacquer applied on a fabric mould) to shape her works. Then the artist uses the nuritate shiage technique to smooth the surfaces of her subjects such as flowers, fruit and natural elements in order to obtain an extremely soft and delicate effect.
Sasai Fumie was born in 1973 in Yao city, Osaka prefecture. In 1992, she attended Kyoto City University of Arts specializing in lacquer technique with the renowned professors: Dr. Kurimoto Natsuki, Dr. Mochizuki Shigenobu as well as Dr. SHINKAI Gyokuho, an important representative of lacquer decorative arts of his time. Fumie has studied different traditional techniques, including dry lacquer on wood (monkushin kanshitsu) and dry hollow lacquer (dakkatsu kanshitsu) as is used in the piece for sale here. Public collections: Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA. Musée Guimet, Paris, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA. Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, Takashimaya Historical Museum, Osaka, Japan, Victoria & Albert Museum, London among others.
Sasai Fumie was born in 1973 in Yao city, Osaka prefecture. In 1992, she attended Kyoto City University of Arts specializing in lacquer technique with the renowned professors: Dr. Kurimoto Natsuki, Dr. Mochizuki Shigenobu as well as Dr. SHINKAI Gyokuho, an important representative of lacquer decorative arts of his time. Fumie has studied different traditional techniques, including dry lacquer on wood (monkushin kanshitsu) and dry hollow lacquer (dakkatsu kanshitsu) as is used in the piece for sale here. Public collections: Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA. Musée Guimet, Paris, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA. Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, Takashimaya Historical Museum, Osaka, Japan, Victoria & Albert Museum, London among others.
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