Sei Koyanagui

Sei Koyanagui was born in 1896, and was a Japanese painter during the first half of the 20th century.  

At first Koyanagui studied in Tokyo.  He later went to Paris around 1920, where he met many different painters.  There he made contact with the artists group headed by his fellow-countryman Tsuguharu Foujita. 

The artist mainly painted animals and flowers, as well as female nudes, which form an important part of his work.  Koyanagui connected Japanese traditions and contemporary French art: That way he created an individual oeuvre. 

His works were shown in the gallery of Georges Petit in 1929 as well as in the Salon des Indépendants and in the Salon d'Automne.