Shinkichi George Tajiri (1923-2009) - Mayday (description Rijksmuseum: Two machines in collision against blue-white-red horizontal colored fond)
Screen printing. 1970. Signed. Dimensions approx 52*52 cm. Frame 64,5*81 cm 1969. 4/190, gesigneerd r.o. Afmetingen afbeelding ca 69*56 cm, lijst ca 70*57 cm.
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Screen printing. 1970. Signed. Dimensions approx 52*52 cm. Frame 64,5*81 cm 1969. 4/190, gesigneerd r.o. Afmetingen afbeelding ca 69*56 cm, lijst ca 70*57 cm.
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Biography
Shinkichi Tajiri began sculpting in 1940. In 1949, he goes to Paris to study with Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger. He meets Karel Appel and Corneille in Paris and exhibits with them at the 1949 Cobra exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. From 1956, Tajiri lives in the Netherlands. Tajiri is of Japanese descent and was born in Los Angeles. He is interned in camps for Americans of Japanese descent at the beginning of World War II, and in 1943 he joins Europe as a soldier. The experiences of war are clearly reflected in Tajiri’s work.
