MOMAT Collection

Tree Love True Love, 2007, pastel on paper, 40.5 x 29.5 cm each © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bildkunst, 2022 / Photo: Kioku Keizo, MOMAT, 2011.

Welcome to the MOMAT Collection! Once again, the time of year approaches when the cherry blossoms of Chidorigafuchi burst beautifully into bloom. To mark this season we are pleased to present masterworks depicting cherry blossoms, including Kawai Gyokudo’s Parting Spring, an Important Cultural Property, in Room 10 on the third floor.

In Rooms 7 and 8 on the third floor, an exhibition entitled White and Black Cartoons focuses on relationships between painting and manga in the 1950s to the 1960s. On view here are painters’ diverse approaches to manga, ranging from social satire to representations of popular culture.

In New Aquisition & Special Display: Pierre Bonnard’s Landscape in Provence, a small-scale exhibit from the collection in Gallery 4 on the second floor, we present Bonnard’s Landscape in Provence (1932), which the museum newly acquired in 2020. The painting, overflowing with vivid color, is being shown for the first time in Japan, and relationships between Bonnard and Japanese modern and contemporary art will be highlighted from several perspectives.

Once again this year, we are pleased to offer an extensive selection of works from the MOMAT Collection for you to enjoy at your leisure.

Translated by Christopher Stephens

 

Artists included: Nobuya (Yoshibumi) ABE, Yasunobu AKAGI, ARMANDO, Jean (Hans) Arp, Chu ASAI, Gyokushi ATOMI, Takako AZAMI, Kashio BABA, Francis Bacon, Miriam Cahn, Yuumi DOMOTO, Jean Dubuffet, Noburu FUJINUMA, Toyoshiro FUKUDA, Ichiro FUKUZAWA, Katsura FUNAKOSHI, Antony Gormley, Masao GOZU, Chimei HAMADA, Naojiro HARADA, Gyoshu HAYAMI, Rieko HIDAKA, Kazuho HIEDA, Shoen IKEDA, Tatsuo IKEDA, Leiko IKEMURA, Imaemon XIII (Yoshinori) IMAIZUMI, Chozaburo INOUE, Shigeo ISHII, Shinsui ITO, Shigeya IWABUCHI, Shigeru IZUMI, Yoshitaro KAMAKURA, Hiroshi KATSURAGAWA, Ryushi KAWABATA, Gyokudo KAWAI, On KAWARA, Shoko KAWASAKI, Hobun KIKUCHI, Keigetsu KIKUCHI, Kentaro KIMURA, Shohachi KIMURA, Uzan KIMURA, Ryusei KISHIDA, Paul Klee, Tokusaburo KOBAYASHI, Yasuo KOBORI, Harue KOGA, Nobuaki KOJIMA, Michisei KONO, Yasuo KUNIYOSHI, Koichiro KURITA, Seiki KURODA, Nobushige KUSAMITSU, Sol LeWitt, Markus Lüpertz, Saori MADOKORO, Josaku MAEDA, Kanji MAETA, Marino Marini, Takashi MASAKI, Keigetsu MATSUBAYASHI, Gonroku MATSUDA, Taiji MATSUE, Shunsuke MATSUMOTO, Henri Michaux, Natsunosuke MISE, Haru MIYAWAKI, Iichi MORIMURA, Saki MURAKAMI, Tsune NAKAMURA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Ikko NARAHARA, Hideo NODA, Isamu Noguchi, Karo OKAMOTO, Shinjiro OKAMOTO, Seiichiro OSAWA, Shosuke OSAWA, Jiro OYAMADA, Max Pechstein, Henri Rousseau, Norihiko SAITO, Sadamu SAITO, Churyo SATO, Emiko Sawaragi, Naobumi SEIMIYA, Shoji SEKINE, Osamu SHIIHARA, W. Eugene Smith, Ralph Steiner, Kunitaro SUDA, Takehiko SUGAWARA, Minami TADA, Kataro TAKAMURA, Hokkai TAKASHIMA, Kojin TONEYAMA, Sadao TSUBAKI, Bakusen TSUCHIDA, Masao TSURUOKA, Ryuzaburo UMEHARA, Sanzo WADA, Isamu WAKABAYASHI, Hoshun YAMAGUCHI, Shuho YAMAKAWA, Kikuji YAMASHITA, Yukihiko YASUDA, Nakaji YASUI, Sataro YASUI, Go YAYANAGI, Taikan YOKOYAMA, Tetsugoro YOROZU, Kenji YOSHIOKA

 

Sources: MOMAT - Highlights, MOMAT - About the Sections

 

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