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Yasushi Tanaka

1886 - 1941

Nude

Date 1923
Materials and Techniques oil on cardboard
Size(cm) 75.5 x 50.5
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower right: TANAKA '23
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M1063
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0190

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, by 1923–1925; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.

Exhibition History

1988
1920-30's Rhapsody in Paris: Painter Yasushi Tanaka and His Contemporaries, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 14 August 1988 - 30 September 1988, cat. no. 19, col. repr.
2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y3_49 | T3_54

Bibliography

1961
Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-296.
1977
Tomiyama, H. On the 'Nude' by Tanaka, from the Matsukata Collection. Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 11, 1977, pp. 26-39, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 266.
1988
Rhapsody in Paris: 1920-30's: Painter Yasushi Tanaka and His Contemporaries (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, ed. [Urawa], The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1988, pp. 30, 88, cat. no. 19, col. repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1560.
2018
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 1063, col. repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 169, 185, cat. no. Y3_49 | T3_54, col. repr.

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