With original label (Tomo Seal)
with Kokuta SUDA Associate certificate
Frame : Width 53 cm Length 65 cm
This oil painting titled “Glass and Pumpkin” is a work by Tsuyoshi Suda, an artist also known for providing illustrations for Shiba Ryotaro’s celebrated series “Kaidō o Yuku” (Travels Along the Highways).
In this composition, a pumpkin with a strong sense of mass is placed on the right, while a quietly standing glass appears on the left. Through these familiar motifs, Suda expresses his characteristic introspective and weighty worldview. The thickly layered paint and vigorous brushwork go beyond simple representation, conveying the presence and physicality of the objects themselves.
Within the restrained color palette, subtle reflections of light and variations in texture are rendered with great sensitivity, demonstrating the artist’s mature painterly language.
The work is accompanied by its original label and a certificate of authenticity, ensuring a clear and reliable provenance.
Kokuta SUDA
1906 - 1990
Japanese Western-style painter. Born in Saitama. He was initially a figurative painter and won many special prizes at the National Exhibition of Japan, but after 1949, he moved on to abstract paintings. His paintings are characterized by a strong, uninhibited touch. He was in charge of illustrations for Ryotaro Shiba's travelogue collection "Kaido yuku" (On the Road), and also accompanied Shiba on his research trips.
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