Local/Staging environment
Facebook Icon Instagram Icon Contact us Talk to us Icon
Upcoming Auctions Past Auctions Print Catalogs Log In Sign Up
Now Online Collectibles
Image for Auction in the menu Collectibles
March 6, 2025 11:00 AM

Buy

Pickup and Shipping Payment

Sell

Consign With Us Estate Solutions First Fridays
Sold $168,750
Image for Lot in the menu Woodland Brook
Edward Willis Redfield Woodland Brook
Sold $168,750
Image for Lot in the menu Taglio Bianco
Leoncillo Leonardi Taglio Bianco
Sold $150,000
Image for Lot in the menu Azural (1987)
José Guerrero Azural (1987)
Sold $109,375
Image for Lot in the menu Untitled
Pietro Consagra Untitled

Services

Trusts and Estates First Fridays

Results

Artists Index Auction Results
Estate Solutions
Settling an estate?
About Capsule In The Neighborhood The Capsule Dispatch
Visit Us at our Chelsea Studio
Capsule Chelsea Studio
508 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001 Pick-Up Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00-4:00PM
My capsule Search My Favorites My Bids Capsule Logo Home

past lot page

December 7, 2023
Twentieth Century Art +
Lot 124
  1. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  2. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  3. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  4. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  5. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  1. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  2. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  3. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  4. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
  5. Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
Akio Tanaka

Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)

Dimensions
8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Have one like this?

Ask a Question
Akio Tanaka
Japanese (b. 1915)
Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green)
Details
mixed media 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches signed lower left
Provenance
From the Estate of Morley Melden
Condition
overall good condition
Frame Information
frame dimensions: 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 1/2 inches, wood frame

test

Browse The Rest of This Sale: Twentieth Century Art +
  1. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Form in Wood and Stone 1
  2. Image for Lot Marysole Wörner Baz - Book Sculptures, Group of 12 2
  3. Image for Lot Fitzia - El Relicario 3
  4. Image for Lot Cecilia Z Miguez - The Art of Letting Go / Encounters (2 Works) 4
  5. Image for Lot Folk Art Assemblage of Bathers in the Ocean 5
  6. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Chirkendooze (Duck) 6
  7. Image for Lot Adrián Villar Rojas - Untitled (Form in White and Brown) 7
  8. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Melody 8
  9. Image for Lot John Rhoden - Horse and Rider 9
  10. Image for Lot Chroma aka Rick Wolfryd - Ring Master 10
  11. Image for Lot Forrest Myers - Untitled (Kinetic Sculpture) 11
  12. Image for Lot Leonor Anaya - Group of 3 Ceramics 12
  13. Image for Lot Tom Friedman - Pink Packing Peanuts Cube 13
  14. Image for Lot David Shaw - Untitled (Sticks) 14
  15. Image for Lot Dike Blair - Day to Day 15
  16. Image for Lot Carrie Yamaoka - Koolpop #19 16
  17. Image for Lot Robert Morris - Model, from Ten from Leo Castelli (C. M1) 17
  18. Image for Lot Ricci Albenda - Tesseract Roseanne (Positive) 18
  19. Image for Lot Shirley Tse - Untitled (Topographical Map) 19
  20. Image for Lot Chroma aka Rick Wolfryd - X Man Flower Child 20
  21. Image for Lot Bonnie Seeman - Teapot and Tray 21
  22. Image for Lot Win Knowlton - Untitled 22
  23. Image for Lot George Dudding - Ether 23
  24. Image for Lot Margery Kahn - Untitled (Mobile) 24
  25. Image for Lot Stephanie Nagorka - Endless Column, After Brancusi 25
  26. Image for Lot Michael Loew - Jericho 26
  27. Image for Lot Jake Berthot - Untitled 27
  28. Image for Lot Sam Gilliam - Untitled 28
  29. Image for Lot Michael Loew - Blue Form #2 29
  30. Image for Lot Brice Marden - Ten Days 30
  31. Image for Lot Brice Marden - Grid II 31
  32. Image for Lot Sokichi Suga - Untited (Red, Green, Ochre) 32
  33. Image for Lot Man Ray - Marcel Duchamp (A Double Lenticular Object) 33
  34. Image for Lot Mona Kuhn - Jungle Roots (from the Native series) 34
  35. Image for Lot Michael Loew - Apri-Ka 35
  36. Image for Lot Joan Snyder - Untitled (Linear Composition in Black, Purple, and Orange) 36
  37. Image for Lot Javier Calleja - Once in my Life (Diptych) 37
  38. Image for Lot Phillip Pearlstein - Portrait of Tony Holland 38
  39. Image for Lot Sokichi Suga - No. 11 39
  40. Image for Lot Mona Kuhn - Superstition (from the Native series) 40
  41. Image for Lot William Gambini - Untitled (Red and Yellow Composition) 41
  42. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Terrane 42
  43. Image for Lot Sokichi Suga - Untitled (Vertical Composition) 43
  44. Image for Lot Jacques Lipchitz - Composition in Black and White 44
  45. Image for Lot Sokichi Suga - Untitled (Painted Relief) 45
  46. Image for Lot Julius Tobias - Composition in Black, White, and Yellow 46
  47. Image for Lot Ken Price - Jivaroland Frog Cup 47
  48. Image for Lot Ken Price - Chinese Figurine Cup 48
  49. Image for Lot Sol LeWitt - Piatto 49
  50. Image for Lot Ken Price - Detective's Room 50
  51. Image for Lot Jake Berthot - Untitled (Form in Pink) 51
  52. Image for Lot Jimmy Ernst - Lane - Triptych 52
  53. Image for Lot Joe Goode - Untitled 53
  54. Image for Lot Ken Price - Club Zebra 54
  55. Image for Lot Ken Price - Japanese Tree Frog Cup 55
  56. Image for Lot Ken Price - Figurine Cup III 56
  57. Image for Lot Lance Letscher - Untitled (Linear Composition) 57
  58. Image for Lot Ken Price - Figurine Cup IV 58
  59. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Echoes 59
  60. Image for Lot Carleton Eugene Watkins - Palace Hotel, San Francisco 60
  61. Image for Lot A Photograph of Man Ray's Cadeau (1934) 61
  62. Image for Lot Lee Miller - Picasso and Cocteau 62
  63. Image for Lot Joan Fontcuberta - Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel Lepidopteros Paganos 63
  64. Image for Lot Aaron Siskind - Chicago 17 64
  65. Image for Lot Thomas Cugini - Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Kunsthalle, Bern Switzerland 65
  66. Image for Lot Connor Everts - Untitled (Scissors) / Everts San Francisco Series Poster (2 Works) 66
  67. Image for Lot John Duff - Willard Gallery Poster 67
  68. Image for Lot Terry Allen - Yellow Mane's Revenge 68
  69. Image for Lot Jasper Johns - Recent Still Life 69
  70. Image for Lot Will Barnet - Silent Seasons - Autumn 70
  71. Image for Lot Michael Loew - Pendualities (from the White Series) 71
  72. Image for Lot Leonard Alberts - Untitled (Composition in Red, Green, Black, and White) 72
  73. Image for Lot Jack Brusca - Once Upon a Time There is a Revolution / Renny and Friends (2 Works) 73
  74. Image for Lot Leonard Alberts - Sentinel 74
  75. Image for Lot Jake Berthot - Untitled (Form in Gray) 75
  76. Image for Lot Peter Stroud - Orange Circumvert II 76
  77. Image for Lot Alan Uglow - Composition in Black and White 77
  78. Image for Lot John Murray - Untitled (Figural Composition) 78
  79. Image for Lot Lionel Gilbert - Blue Compote 79
  80. Image for Lot Shigeo Matsuki - Tree 80
  81. Image for Lot Jake Berthot - Composition in Black and Gray 81
  82. Image for Lot Shlomo Koren - Untitled (Abstract Composition) 82
  83. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Untitled (Geometric Composition) 83
  84. Image for Lot Leonard Alberts - Untitled Portrait 84
  85. Image for Lot Jay Davis - Untitled (One Tall White Structure with House Connected to One Small Structure with House) 85
  86. Image for Lot Philip Wofford - Range Finder 86
  87. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Landscape Triptych 87
  88. Image for Lot Frederic Amat - Untitled (Fish) 88
  89. Image for Lot Cicero Greathouse - Untitled 89
  90. Image for Lot Sandra Lerner - Untitled (Composition in Blue) 90
  91. Image for Lot Thomas Buildmore - B Company Series 91
  92. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Untitled (Composition in Pink and Orange) 92
  93. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Industrial Panorama 93
  94. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Oblique 94
  95. Image for Lot Damian Loeb - Untitled (Plane Crash) 95
  96. Image for Lot Hugo Drucaroff - Personaje Clásico / Figura (2 Works) 96
  97. Image for Lot Alexandre Dacosta - Lona 9 97
  98. Image for Lot Shigeo Matsuki - Landscape 98
  99. Image for Lot Shigeo Matsuki - Untitled (Composition in Gray and Blue) 99
  100. Image for Lot Group of 4 Abstract Compositions 100
  101. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Cow 101
  102. Image for Lot Marysole Wörner Baz - Untitled (Blue Landscape) 102
  103. Image for Lot Marc Chagall - Le Poisson Bleu (The Blue Fish) 103
  104. Image for Lot William Littlefield - Between This and That 104
  105. Image for Lot Seymour Franks - The Marker 105
  106. Image for Lot Carol Summers - Fuji 106
  107. Image for Lot Carol Summers - Comet over the Lower Falls of Yellowstone 107
  108. Image for Lot Carol Summers - First International Salmon Creek Grass Festival Poster / Untitled (Landscape) (2 Works) 108
  109. Image for Lot Joel Bass - Repetition #3 109
  110. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Organic Composition 110
  111. Image for Lot Lionel Gilbert - Untitled (Geometric Composition) 111
  112. Image for Lot Lionel Gilbert - Still Life 112
  113. Image for Lot Joan Miró - Composition 113
  114. Image for Lot Joe Goode - Untitled 114
  115. Image for Lot Joe Goode - Untitled 115
  116. Image for Lot Jean B. Campbell - Wake Up Thomas Cole 116
  117. Image for Lot Terry Allen - The Cage Kelpies Cloudy Sham 117
  118. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - People in Phone Booths 118
  119. Image for Lot Robert Indiana - New York City Center 25th Anniversary 119
  120. Image for Lot Brett DePalma - Pig Man Gator 120
  121. Image for Lot style of Lyonel Feininger - The Cathedral 121
  122. Image for Lot Various Artists - New York Ten (Partial Portfolio) 122
  123. Image for Lot John Murray - Untitled (Figural Composition) 123
  124. Image for Lot Akio Tanaka - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Green) 124
  125. Image for Lot John Walker - Salsipuedes Forms 125
  126. Image for Lot John Walker - Salsipuedes Forms 126
  127. Image for Lot after Marc Chagall - Die Zauberflöte / The Magic Flute Poster 127
  128. Image for Lot Joseph Wolins - Untitled (Figures) 128
  129. Image for Lot Will Barnet - The Doorway 129
  130. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Linear Composition in Blue 130
  131. Image for Lot Matsumi Kanemitsu - San Francisco 38 131
  132. Image for Lot Stephen Westfall - Untitled (Grid Composition) 132
  133. Image for Lot William Fares - Untitled (Circle) 133
  134. Image for Lot Johann Hauser - Group of Two Prints 134
  135. Image for Lot Outsider Art, Group of 17 135
  136. Image for Lot Albert Louden - Untitled (Street Scene) 136
  137. Image for Lot Edmund E. Niemann - Mother and Child 137
  138. Image for Lot Gibb Slife - War and Peace (2 Works) 138
  139. Image for Lot Various Artists - 3 Works on Paper 139
  140. Image for Lot John Walker - #7 140
  141. Image for Lot John Walker - #14 141
  142. Image for Lot Leon Marcus - Untitled (Burlesque Show Backstage) 142
  143. Image for Lot Gabor Peterdi - Arctic Bird 1 143
  144. Image for Lot Paintings, Group of 4 144
  145. Image for Lot Woong Kim - Bird 145
  146. Image for Lot Alexander Kaplan - Welcome Home 146
  147. Image for Lot Alexander Kaplan - Violinist 147
  148. Image for Lot Terry Allen - Pinto to Paradise 148
  149. Image for Lot Terry Allen - I wish you hadn't done that 149
  150. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - F.S. Beer 150
  151. Image for Lot Justin McCarthy - Untitled (Fetus) 151
  152. Image for Lot Nancy Chunn - September 27, 1996 152
  153. Image for Lot Gary Brotmeyer - Annunciation / Untitled / Thanks for the Fish (3 Works) 153
  154. Image for Lot Justin McCarthy - Maria Montez 154
  155. Image for Lot Bruce Boice - Collection of 12 Drawings 155
  156. Image for Lot Oswald Tschirtner - Diagonal People / Untitled (2 Works) 156
  157. Image for Lot Justin McCarthy - Mal Whitfield of Ohio State in 400 Meter 157
  158. Image for Lot Arman - 2003 158
  159. Image for Lot Mary Bauermeister - Needless Needles 159
  160. Image for Lot Portfolio of Figural Drawings 160
  161. Image for Lot Works on Paper, Group of 4 161
  162. Image for Lot Gary Stephan - Shalow Deep Shalow 162
  163. Image for Lot Ronnie White - Figural Compositions, Group of 2 163
  164. Image for Lot Marc Bell - Safe 164
  165. Image for Lot Mirella Bentivoglio - The Heart of the Obedient Consumer 165
  166. Image for Lot August (Alois) Walla Georg - Weltallendegott 166
  167. Image for Lot August (Alois) Walla Georg - Untitled (Creature) 167
  168. Image for Lot Johann Hauser - Portrait 168
  169. Image for Lot Johann Korec - Untitled (Street Scene) 169
  170. Image for Lot Terry Allen - Pinto to Paradise 170
  171. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Studio 171
  172. Image for Lot Carol Summers - First International Salmon Creek Grass Festival Poster / Untitled (Landscape) (2 Works) 172
  173. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Abstract Forms 173
  174. Image for Lot Terry Allen - A Natural Music Act 174
  175. Image for Lot Albert Louden - Man with Rust Shirt and Four Small Figures 175
  176. Image for Lot Edward B. Jordan - Rhino / Blue Face / Mosquitoes with Sunglasses (3 Works) 176
  177. Image for Lot Justin McCarthy - Portrait of a Woman 177
  178. Image for Lot Justin McCarthy - Entrance to Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel 178
  179. Image for Lot Unknown Artist- Untitled (Figural Composition) 179
  180. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Watercolors, Group of 3 180
  181. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Portfolio, 12 Prints 181
  182. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Short Stories 182
  183. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Linear Composition in Black and Gray 183
  184. Image for Lot Albert Louden - Untitled (Three Figures) 184
  185. Image for Lot Dwight Mackintosh - Untitled (Figure) 185
  186. Image for Lot Mabel Pletz - Untitled (Composition in Blue and Orange) 186
  187. Image for Lot Paul Sarkisian - Untitled (Compositions in Blue and Black), Group of 2 187
  188. Image for Lot Paul Sarkisian - Untitled (Compositions in Orange), Group of 2 188
  189. Image for Lot Melissa Meyer - 2 Works on Paper 189
  190. Image for Lot Lowell Nesbitt - Heart Arch 190
  191. Image for Lot Lowell Nesbitt - The Grotto of Adami 191
  192. Image for Lot Leslie Machinist - III 192
  193. Image for Lot Miklos Pogany - Rising High Class Hell, Up on Easy Street 193
  194. Image for Lot Erik van Lieshout - The Frog 194
  195. Image for Lot Erik van Lieshout - Mama 195
  196. Image for Lot Lowell Nesbitt - Ruby 196
  197. Image for Lot Alejandro Corujeira - Eco 197
  198. Image for Lot Juan Carlos Areoso - Geometric Compositions, Set of 2 198
  199. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Andialo 199
  200. Image for Lot Fitzia - Burgos (Noir) 200
  201. Image for Lot Bryan Hunt - Navigator 2 201
  202. Image for Lot Larry Horowitz - Riding Rising 202
  203. Image for Lot Catherine McCarthy - The Return of Leaf and Flower 203
  204. Image for Lot Norman Shapiro - Untitled (Composition in Blue, Red, and Green) 204
  205. Image for Lot Morley Melden - Forest of the Night 205
  206. Image for Lot Morley Melden - Multi Colored Compositions, Group of 2 206
  207. Image for Lot Morley Melden - Untitled (Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue) 207
  208. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Blue and Red Compositions, Group of 2 208
  209. Image for Lot Morley Melden - Le Carnaval II 209
  210. Image for Lot Pau Lluis Fornes - Female Nude 210
  211. Image for Lot Paul Sarkisian - Untitled (Compositions), Group of 3 211
  212. Image for Lot Donald Kaufman - Prime / Untitled (2 Works) 212
  213. Image for Lot Paintings, Group of 6 213
  214. Image for Lot Unknown Artist - Untitled (Four Figures) 214
  215. Image for Lot Robert Harding - Seascape 215
  216. Image for Lot Max Bucaille - Roman Noir 216
  217. Image for Lot Robert Harding - Seascape 217