Susumu Kamijo

Susumu Kamijo

Japan • 1975
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Susumu Kamijo is renowned for his striking drawings and paintings of poodles that play with line, shape, and color. Characterized by a graphic, hard-edged style, these portraits portray canines as noble, glamorous, and even powerful, as in Chasing (2017), which sold for $94,500 at auction in 2021. 

Kamijo received his MFA from the University of Washington, where he met fellow painter Jonas wood; the pair collaborated on Kamijo's first catalogue Poodles (2017). Since he began portraying poodles in 2014, Kamijo has continued to hone his style, exploring patterns and marks like cross-hatching to add texture and rhythm to swaths of color. While he originally favored using pastel pencil and oil crayon on Coventry cotton rag paper, he has also immortalized poodles on canvas and in vinyl and oil paint.

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Print, The Blossoms of the Sun, Susumu Kamijo

Print . 34.5 x 40 cm Print . 13.6 x 15.7 inch

CHF 816

Fine Art Drawings, Winter Desert Poodle, Susumu Kamijo

Fine Art Drawings . 65 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

CHF 17,689

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Sculpture, Dance For Me In The Dusk, Susumu Kamijo

Sculpture . 96 x 71.88 x 11.9 cm Sculpture . 37.8 x 28.3 x 4.7 inch

CHF 10,786

Print, Two Blossoms in a Dream, Susumu Kamijo

Print . 34.5 x 40 cm Print . 13.6 x 15.7 inch

CHF 816

Painting, Untitled, Susumu Kamijo

Painting . 43.2 x 35.6 x 2 cm Painting . 17 x 14 x 0.8 inch

CHF 17,258

Fine Art Drawings, On the way home, Susumu Kamijo

Fine Art Drawings . 76.5 x 57 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 30.1 x 22.4 x 0.8 inch

CHF 25,455

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Print, The Flowers of the Waves, Susumu Kamijo

Print . 42.3 x 49 cm Print . 16.7 x 19.3 inch

CHF 874

Fine Art Drawings, Blood Moon, Susumu Kamijo

Fine Art Drawings . 43.2 x 35.6 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 17 x 14 x 0.8 inch

CHF 14,237

Print, The Comrades, Susumu Kamijo

Print . 70 x 50 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 inch

CHF 972

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Print, Comes A Time, Susumu Kamijo

Print . 95.3 x 76.2 x 2.67 cm Print . 37.5 x 30 x 1.1 inch

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