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Property from the Estate of Joan and Bowen Blair, Lake Forest, Illinois
TOSHIKO TAKAEZU (1922-2011)
Untitled Closed Form (Anagama), circa 1980-1997
Details
TOSHIKO TAKAEZU (1922-2011)
Untitled Closed Form (Anagama), circa 1980-1997
Anagama-fired stoneware
32 ½ in. (82.5 cm) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm) diameter
incised with artist's monogram TT
Untitled Closed Form (Anagama), circa 1980-1997
Anagama-fired stoneware
32 ½ in. (82.5 cm) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm) diameter
incised with artist's monogram TT
Provenance
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997
Literature
Toshiko Takaezu: 1989-1990, exh. cat., Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, 1990, pp. 10-11, no. 16 (for a related example)
J. Stanley Yake, Toshiko Takaezu: The Earth in Bloom, New York, 2005, pp. 42, 73, 140-142 (for related examples)
S. A. Schields, Echoes of the Earth: Ceramics by Toshiko Takaezu, exh. cat., Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2007, pp. vi-vii, 12, 29, pl. 29 (for related examples)
P. Held, ed., The Art of Toshiko Takaezu: In the Language of Silence, Chapel Hill, 2010, pp. 106-17, no. 64 (for a related example)
G. Adamson, D. Hart, and K. Wiener, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, 2024, pp. 15, 38-39, 152-154 (for related examples)
J. Stanley Yake, Toshiko Takaezu: The Earth in Bloom, New York, 2005, pp. 42, 73, 140-142 (for related examples)
S. A. Schields, Echoes of the Earth: Ceramics by Toshiko Takaezu, exh. cat., Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2007, pp. vi-vii, 12, 29, pl. 29 (for related examples)
P. Held, ed., The Art of Toshiko Takaezu: In the Language of Silence, Chapel Hill, 2010, pp. 106-17, no. 64 (for a related example)
G. Adamson, D. Hart, and K. Wiener, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, 2024, pp. 15, 38-39, 152-154 (for related examples)
Further details
Christie’s would like to thank the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation for their assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
Brought to you by
Daphné Riou
SVP, Senior Specialist, Head of Americas