SAWADA TETSURO

Silkscreen. Born 1935, Hokkaido, Died 1999. Musashino Art College.
Studied in North and South America,Spain and France.

Permanent Collections: the British Museum, London; Queensland Art Museum, Australia; Cleveland Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum; Honolulu Academy of Arts; the Rockefeller Foundation. Solo exhibitions in Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Australia, Norway, Honolulu, Vancouver.

Sawada’s lush paintings and silkscreen prints are now appreciated by a world-wide audience. His imagery is created by layering complimentary colours in soft yet brilliant gradations. Sawada’s use of bokashi (shading from a dark colour into a paler one without any discernable point of change) on his silkscreen has been long admired. He mixed each colour himself and created a visual poem of contrasts of shading by the juxtaposition of shiny and matte inks, and by a breathtaking precision of style.

SAWADA TETSURO:  Serigraph-G
Title: Serigraph-G - SOLD OUT
Date: Memorial Edition 2007
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 250
Image size: 41 x 51cm
SAWADA TETSURO:  Serigraph-H
Title: Serigraph-H
Date: Memorial Edition 2007
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 250
Image size: 41 x 51cm
SAWADA TETSURO:  Bloom
Title: Bloom - SOLD OUT
Date: 1991
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 150
Image size: 58 x 33cm
SAWADA TETSURO: Blue Space
Title: Blue Space - SOLD OUT
Date: 1987
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 150
Image size: 21 x 35cm
SAWADA TETSURO: Mirror I
Title: Mirror I
Date: 1988
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 150
Image size: 64 x 81 cm framed
SAWADA TETSURO: Arise
Title: Arise - SOLD OUT
Date: 1990
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 150
Image size: 25 x 60 cm
SAWADA TETSURO: Dawn II
Title: Dawn II
Date: 1989
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 150
Image size: 40 x 27 cm