RELEASE | Through a Collector's Eye: The Kenzo Kagami Collection of Postwar Japanese Art - London, 11 October
THROUGH A COLLECTOR’S EYE:
THE KENZO KAGAMI COLLECTION OF
POST-WAR JAPANESE ART
London – A carefully curated group of works from the collection of Mr Kenzo Kagami will be offered for sale at Christie’s King Street on 11 October. A pioneer collector of Post-War Japanese art, Mr Kagami started forming his collection in 1970s following a period of working overseas, when he became aware that people in Europe and the United States were active collectors of contemporary art of their own country. He went on to build a large and historically significant collection featuring representative works by major artists including Kumi Sugai, Toshimitsu Imai, Shusaku Arakawa, Toshinobu Onosato, and also focusing early on the then-emerging artists in the 1980s such as Tadashi Kawamata and Kenshi Yamakura.
Many of the works have been on loan to The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan, where they have been exhibited, and artworks from the collection have also been exhibited internationally. This is the first time that such a significant group of Japanese Post-War art from a private Japanese collection has been offered for auction in the West, presenting a unique opportunity for collectors to acquire works of impeccable provenance from this fascinating period of Japanese art history.
Featuring work by 17 artists and spanning the 1950s to the 1980s, highlights from Through a Collector's Eye: The Kenzo Kagami Collection of Postwar Japanese Art will be on view at Christie’s King Street on 7 October, with the entire collection on view during London Frieze Week from 8 – 10 October.
Exhibition
16 - 21 September, King Street
7 October, highlights, King Street
8 - 10 October, King Street
Auction
11 October, King Street