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Lot 60
Kumi Sugai

Untitled (gray and black) (1967)

Dimensions
9 x 11 1/2 inches

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Price Realized: $1,125
Includes buyer's premium

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Kumi Sugai
Japanese (1919-1996)
Untitled (gray and black) (1967)
Details
oil on canvas 9 x 11 1/2 inches faintly signed lower right
Provenance
from the Collection of Joyce Kootz widow of renowned gallerist Sam Kootz
Condition
overall good condition, some areas of craquelure to the thicker impasto
Frame Information
frame dimensions: 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches, strip frame
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Dr. Joyce Lowinson M.D. is a pioneer in the treatment of opioid addiction and the founding director of Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Division of Substance Abuse. Also known as Joyce Kootz, her husband, the late Samuel M. Kootz, was a New York City art dealer and author whose gallery was one of the first to champion Abstract Expressionist Art. During Samuel M. Kootz's career, he bought paintings directly from Picasso and exhibited work by Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, James Brooks, Giorgio Cavallon, Arshile Gorky, David Hare, Hans Hofmann, Ibram Lassaw, Herbert Ferber, Raymond Parker, William Ronald, Tony Rosenthal, Conrad Marca-Relli, Georges Mathieu, Emil Schumacher, Pierre Soulages, Kumi Sugaï, Zao Wou Ki, and others.

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