IKEMURA, LEIKO
Tsu, Mie-Ken/Japan

Title: Untitled.
Date: 1985.
Technique: Acrylic on canvas.
Measurement: 200 x 180cm.
Notation: Signed and dated on the centre stretcher right: LeiKo IKemura 1985.
Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar.


Provenance:
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (former permanent loan)
- Private collection Germany

Exhibitions:
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt 1985/86 (label)

Literature:
- Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Hessischen Landesmuseums in Darmstadt (ed.): Tiefe Blicke. Kunst der achtziger Jahre aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der DDR, Österreich und der Schweiz, Cologne 1985, cat. no. 156, ill.

- Large-format early work in the artist's unmistakable style with an expressive pictorial world
- The work was part of the groundbreaking exhibition "Deep Views"
- Works by the artist are represented in numerous important public collections, including Kunstmuseum Basel, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka/Japan


In the mid-1980s, the work was part of the groundbreaking exhibition and collection presentation "Deep Views" at the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. It has been on permanent loan there ever since and is now being offered on the auction market for the first time.