signed and titled on the frame reverse
Living National Treasure
Frame：45cm × 34cm
Glass paintings are painted on the back of transparent plate glass in the reverse order of ordinary paintings, using mud or oil paints, and are viewed from the surface. Keisuke Serizawa was active as a dyeing artist, but his childhood dream was to become a painter. His glass paintings and other hand paintings are highly regarded alongside his stencil-dyed works.
Keisuke Serizawa was also a well-known collector, and the Serizawa Keisuke Museum of Art in Shizuoka houses 4,500 pieces of artifacts from around the world. Among furniture, Serizawa's favorites seemed to be chairs. He collected many chairs, mainly from Europe and Africa, and kept them with him, constantly replacing them. The chair depicted in this work may be one of his favorite chairs.
Keisuke SERIZAWA
1895 – 1984
He was a Japanese textile designer. In 1956, he was designated as a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government for his katazome stencil dyeing technique. A leading member of the mingei movement founded by Yanagi Sōetsu, Serizawa visited Okinawa several times and learned the Ryūkyū bingata techniques of dyeing. His folk-art productions included kimono, paper prints, wall scrolls, folding screens, curtains, fans, and calendars.
In 1981, the Municipal Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum was opened in the city of Shizuoka. Other museums that hold his work include the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Seattle Art Museum, the British Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the Museum of New Zealand.
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