Exhibition

Current Exhibition

Saeki Yuzo: Emerging from the Urban Landscape

Saeki Yuzo: Emerging from the Urban Landscape

Saturday, January 21, - Sunday, April 2, 2023

*Ticket sales starts from 12/1

Saeki Yuzo (1898-1928) was a prodigious painter who lived a short but vivid life, just thirty years long, in the cities of Osaka, Tokyo, and Paris almost 100 years ago. During his short art career, Saeki changed his painting styles from time to time, and most of them are in conjunction with his discovery of landscapes to be painted. This exhibition focuses on three of cities he depicted and reconsiders the formative qualities of his art, including not only landscapes but also portraits and still lifes. This will be the first full-scale retrospective exhibition of Saeki's work in Tokyo in 18 years.

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Next Exhibition

Japanese Paintings of Modern Osaka

Japanese Paintings of Modern Osaka

Saturday, April 15 – Sunday, June 11, 2023

*Ticket sales starts from 3/1

Osaka, one of the three largest cities in Japan, boasted great economic power as a city of commerce and industry in the modern era. Against the backdrop of this economic power, wealthy and educated people desired the works of art, to which painters such as Kitano Tsunetomi, Suga Tatehiko, and Shima Seien responded by producing outstanding works of art, which in turn nurtured talented pupils. This exhibition introduces the development of modern Japanese painting in Osaka in six chapters. We hope you will enjoy the gorgeous and refined masterpieces created between Meiji and early Showa era.

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