
1999 Paris Rue de Lanneau Quartier Latin
Kojiro Akagi
Print - 65 x 48 cm Print - 25.6 x 18.9 inch
$1,111
Print : Screen Print, engraving
28 x 18 cm 11 x 7.1 inch
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Numbered and limited to 35 copies
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Hand-signed by artist
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28 x 18 cm 11 x 7.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Red wood frame with glass
Artwork dimensions including frame
30 x 22 cm 11.8 x 8.7 inch
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Artwork location: France
"At the corner of Rue Valette" Latin District, December 1990 Atelier del Arco 35 exemplaires N° E - 64 of the Catalogue Raisonné of Engravings by Kojiro AKAGI Frame by the artist
Collection du Musée Carnavalet de Paris, 111 estampes et tableaux.
" Au coin de la rue Valette " Quartier Latin, Décembre 1990
" At the corner of Rue Valette" Latin District, December 1990
Sérigraphie Silk Screen
Atelier del Arco 35 exemplaires
18 x 28 cm - 7,09 x 11,02 inches
N° E-64 du Calogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Gravé de Kojiro AKAGI
N° E - 64 of the Catalogue Raisonné of Engravings by Kojiro
AKAGI
Encadrement par l'artiste Frame by the artist.
OLYMPIADES DES ARTS PARIS
En 1991 et 1992, lors des évènements internationaux sous l'égide du Président Mitterrand et du Maire de Paris, Jacques Chirac, l’artiste est sélectionné pour représenter son pays, lors des Olympiades des Arts organisées par la Galerie Lise Cormery, pour le CNOSF, Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français, à l'occasion des Jeux Olympiques de 1992 en France. Cet évènement international faisait suite aux Olympiades des Arts de Séoul où la ville fonde pour cette compétition un Musée de peintures internationales et le SOMA, un Musée de sculptures monumentales en plein air, avec des artistes invités venus du monde entier pour exposer et représenter l'art du XXe siècle.
PARIS ART OLYMPIADS
In 1991 and 1992, under the High Patronage of French President Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, Mayor of Paris, the artist was selected to represent his country during the Art Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the CNOSF, French Olympic Committee. This international event was following the famous 1988 Art Olympiads in Seoul, South Korea, where a monumental sculptures Museum in open air and a Museum of International paintings was created for the world competition, in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the 20th Century.
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Kōjirō Akagi 赤木 曠児郎 (1934-2021) was born in Okayama, Japan in 1934 and dies on February 15, 2021 in Okayama, where he staid for few days before his return to Paris, his hometown since 1963, in France. Man of a very deep French and Japanese Culture, he was as well a Master of "Free Hand" oil on painting, watercolors and a remarkable printmaker. 1956 Bachelor's degree in Physics, Okayama University, Japan. 1963 He obtains a scholarship and while Japan is impoverished by WWII he settles in Paris with his wife in order to study. They both will remain in Paris until their death. Diploma of Beaux-Arts, Paris with Professor Brianchon. In order to make a living, while he keeps painting nights and days, his wife is working for French High Fashion, while he works as French Correspondent for Japanese newspapers, and will become the specialist of French Culture and History.
1970 1975 Paul Sonnenberg Art Gallery, Paris, shows his art and introduces him to French Institutions, he publishes some of his lithographs. 1971 Gold Medal Watercolors 1974 Gold Medal Paintings, Salon des Artistes Français. 1975 French Président Medal. He obtains a studio by the town of Paris and buys a flat in Paris XVe. After many years without a gallery after his rupture with Sonnenberg Gallery in 1975, he meets Lise Cormery. She will show permanently his art from 1988 until 2005 at her Galerie in Paris and writes for him biographical Art Critic, as well as her friend Pierre Granville, She travels around the world in 1990 in order to promote his art. They publish together his Catalogue Raisonné. Lise Cormery wrote the foreword to this book, as well as the texts in French and English created by Akagi in Japanese. Catalogue Raisonné 1. "Les Estampes (prints) de 1974 à 1999", published 2000. Le Catalogue Raisonné 2. "Les tableaux de Paris (Paris paintings) 1969 à 2004", Published November 2004.
Medals. 1994 and 1998 Navy Blue Ribbon Medal Japon. 2000 Printmaker Gold Medal. Grimaldi Museum Cagnes. 2002 Minister of Foreign Affairs, France. 2005 Rising Sun Order, Japon.
SOLO SHOWS
1978 1979 "Mon Paris" Carnavalet Museum, Jean-Marc Leiris, Chief Curator. 1988-2005 Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris Ve Permanently and Solo Show every two years. 1993 Tribute "Le Paris d'Akagi" Mitsukoshi, rue de Tilsitt. Mitsukoshi, Tokyo organizes prestigious international art shows. 1995 Invitation by Jean Tibéri, Mayor of Paris, Mairie de Paris. 2004 Tribute "Akagi, 1963–2003, 40 years in Paris " Carnavalet Museum Parvis de Notre Dame Crypte Archéologique Museum, Paris. 2009 "AKAGI" Mayor Jean Tibéri. Mairie du Ve Paris. 2012 Akagi Mairie Ve et 8e, Paris. 2016 "AKAGI" Villandry Castle. 2019 AKAGI Mairie du XVe, Mayor Philippe Goujon, Paris.
COLLECTIONS A Selection. CARNAVALET Museum Paris, 125 watercolors, 3 oil paintings. CERNUSCHI Museum. MOA Museum of Atami, Japon. VATICAN Museum. TOKYO Royal UENO Museum. KYOTO Museum City, Japan. Prefectural Museum of Okayama. Kurashiki City Modern Museum, Japan.WAKO Museum, Kasaoka, Japan. Grimaldi Museum, Cagnes, France. Nariwa City Museum, Japon. Grez-sur-Loing City Museum. 2003 Patricia Clark Museum, Iowa, USA.
Kojiro AKAGI Live, Videoconferences on YouTube, with Galerie Lise Cormery, University Paris Diderot.
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