This piece has found its home. It is kept here as a record of what has passed through our hands.
A hand-signed silkscreen, numbered 46/98, by Imai Toshimitsu (1928–2002) — the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement and the key figure who carried it between Europe and Japan.
Imai moved to Paris in 1952 and, under the critic Michel Tapié, turned to gestural abstraction in thick, worked colour. In 1957 he brought Sam Francis and Georges Mathieu to Tokyo, effectively opening Japan's door to European abstraction. He exhibited at the São Paulo and Venice Biennales, was handled by Leo Castelli in New York, and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1996.
