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YASUI, Sotaro   1888 - 1955
 
 
Portrait of Chin-Jung
 
1934
oil on canvas, 96.5×74.5 cm
signed u.l.
21st Nikaten(1934)
 
O00002
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
 
Provenance
 
Exhibition History
1934 21st Nikaten, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, 1934/9/3 - 1934/10/4
1948 近代日本美術総合展覧会, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1948/10/15 - 1948/11/25
1952 Modern Japanese Art: Retrospective and Perspective of Modern Painting, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1952/12/1 - 1953/1/25
1954 Exhibition of Modern Japanese Portraiture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1954/1/26 - 1954/3/10
1956 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Painting, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1956/12/8 - 1957/1/31
1956 Posthumous Exhibition of Sotaro Yasui, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1956/4/5 - 1956/5/13
1958 Development of Modern Japanese Painting, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 1958/2/1 - 1958/2/28
1958 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Art Painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1958/4/25 - 1958/6/1
1960 A Survey of Modern Japanese Art: Permanent Exhibition, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1960/8/2 - 1960/8/18
1961 Oil Painting in Modern Japan, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, 1961/11/3 - 1961/12/3
1961 Permanent Exhibit: Mainly New Acquisitions of The Ministry of Education, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1961/4/1 - 1961/4/6
1961 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Art, Fujisaki, Sendai, 1961/4/15 - 1961/4/30
1961 Development of Oil Painting in Modern Japan, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1961/5/9 - 1961/5/14
1961 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Art, Imai, Sapporo, 1961/9/12 - 1961/9/24
1962 Oil Painting and Sculpture in Modern Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1962/6/28 - 1962/7/22
1962 Painting and Sculpture in Modern Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1962/7/28 - 1962/8/26
1963 Painting and Sculpture in Modern Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1963/1/29 - 1963/2/15
1963 Painting and Sculpture in Modern Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1963/8/8 - 1963/8/25
1964 Japanese Artists: A Contrast, after Sojourning in Europe or America, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1964/1/5 - 1964/2/16
1965 二科五十周年回顧記念展, Shinjuku Station Building, Tokyo, 1965/6/23 - 1965/7/8
1965 Modern Japanese Oil Paintings: from the museum collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1965/7/30 - 1965/8/29
1966 Modern Paintings in Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 1966/8/16 - 1966/9/11
1967 Modern Japanese Paintings from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1967/3/3 - 1967/3/26
1968 Modern Japanese Oil Paintings: Mainly from Taisho and Showa (prewar) Eras, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1968/1/26 - 1968/2/25
1968 Modern Japanese Oil Paintings: Mainly from Postwar Showa Era, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1968/2/27 - 1968/3/31
1968 Mutual Influences between Japanese and Western Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1968/9/7 - 1968/10/27
1969 Yasui Sotaro, Seibu, Tokyo, 1969/3/7 - 1969/3/19
1972 Today's Focus: On Modern Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1972/9/6 - 1972/11/5
1975 Modern Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1975/1/18 - 1975/2/2
1978 Exhibition of Sotaro Yasui, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1978/4/29 - 1978/6/11
1979 Yasui Sotaro, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 1979/3/3 - 1979/4/8
1980 Umehara Ryuzaburo and Yasui Sotaro, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 1980/4/1 - 1980/4/13
1982 Modern Japanese Art, Part 2〔1900-1945〕: The 30th Anniversary Exhibition: From the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1982/9/18 - 1982/10/31
1986 日本近代美術名作展, Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Miyakonojo, 1986/10/18 - 1986/11/3
1986 Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1986/6/28 - 1986/8/24
1988 The Image of Man in Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1988/7/22 - 1988/9/11
1989 Sōtarō Yasui, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, 1989/5/3 - 1989/6/4
1989 Sōtarō Yasui, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, 1989/6/14 - 1989/7/16
1989 Art of the Showa Period from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1989/7/21 - 1989/9/17
1991 Masterpieces from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: Oil Painting in Japan, Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Kure, 1991/3/21 - 1991/4/21
1991 Masterpieces from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: Oil Painting in Japan, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, 1991/4/26 - 1991/5/26
1991 Masterpieces from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: Oil Painting in Japan, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, 1991/6/6 - 1991/7/7
1991 Masterpieces from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: Oil Painting in Japan, Toyohashi City Museum and History, Toyohashi, 1991/7/19 - 1991/8/18
1991 Masterpieces from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: Oil Painting in Japan, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, 1991/8/24 - 1991/9/29
1992 The Reorganization of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1935, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, 1992/8/14 - 1992/10/6
1994 Realistic Representation IV: Master Paintings in Japan in the 1930s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1994/10/1 - 1994/11/13
1994 Realistic Representation IV: Master Paintings in Japan in the 1930s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 1994/11/22 - 1994/12/18
1995 平成6年度国立博物館・美術館地方巡回展 美の世界, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, 1995/1/21 - 1995/2/19
1995 Modern Japanese Art: Between the East and the West, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, 1995/11/1 - 1995/11/30
1995 Japanese Beauty, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, 1995/2/25 - 1995/3/26
1996 Yasui Sotaro, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, 1996/4/6 - 1996/5/19
1996 The Crossing Visions: Europian and Modern Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 1996/7/20 - 1996/9/8
1998 Sotaro YASUI, Sogo Museum of Art, Chiba, Chiba, 1998/9/23 - 1998/10/19
1999 Birth of Masterpieces: Five Focuses on Modern Japanese Paintings, Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 1999/1/15 - 1999/2/14
1999 Birth of Masterpieces: Five Focuses on Modern Japanese Paintings, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, 1999/2/25 - 1999/3/22
2000 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Art from the Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 2000/4/8 - 2000/5/7
2000 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Art from the Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Hagi Uragami Museum, Hagi, 2000/5/13 - 2000/6/18
2000 Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Art from the Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Sakata City Museum of Art, Sakata, 2000/6/28 - 2000/7/30
2004 Adoption and development : toward the full bloom of modern oil painting in Japan, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, 2004/2/14 - 2004/3/14
2004 Remarking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2004/4/10 - 2004/6/20
2005 Yasui Sotaro : the fiftieth anniversary of his death, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, 2005/4/16 - 2005/6/5
2005 Yasui Sotaro : the fiftieth anniversary of his death, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Mito, 2005/6/11 - 2005/7/24
2009 Portraits by Yasui Sotaro, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2009/10/31 - 2010/1/17
2010 開館1周年記念 日本画と洋画のはざまで展, Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2010/9/11 - 2010/11/7
2011 The lineage of culture : the Hosokawa family Eisei Bunko collection, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, 2011/10/8 - 2011/11/23
2012 Art Will Thrill You!: The Essence of Modern Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2012/10/16 - 2013/1/14
2014 Yasui Sotaro, Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura, 2014/11/22 - 2014/12/25
2014 Chinese-style dresses, from Fujishima Takeji to Umehara Ryuzaburo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2014/4/26 - 2014/7/21
2014 Yasui Sotaro, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, 2014/9/20 - 2014/11/16
2015 No Museum, No Life?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2015/6/16 - 2015/9/13
2016 Masterpieces from National Museum of Art, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Obihiro, 2016/10/22 - 2016/11/27
2016 Masterpieces from National Museum of Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 2016/9/3 - 2016/10/10
2019 Images of Asia, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019/10/12 - 2020/1/13
 
Bibliography
1972 現代日本の美術10 安井曽太郎/小出楢重, Shueisha
1979 Sotaro Yasui, Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha
1979 原色現代日本の美術 7 近代洋画の展開, Shogakukan
1984 Modern Japanese Art: Selected works from the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1993 日本美術全集 23 モダニズムと伝統, Kodansha
2005 Masterpieces from The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Mitsumura Suiko Shoin
2016 Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
 
 
Works by this artist
Nude, 1909, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
House in Spring, 1911, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Yellow Flower Vase, 1912, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Dahlia, 1916, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
A Suburb of Kyoto, 1923, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Fruits, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Landscape in the Boso Peninsula, 1932, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Oirase Stream, 1933, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Early Summer, 1933, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Girl in New-Year Clothes, 1933, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Sketch of Chin-Jung, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Portrait of Chin-Jung, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Woman Leading on a Chair, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Fishes and Snails, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Roses, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Artist and His Model, 1934, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Autumn at Lake Towada, 1935, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Woman Listening to a Record, 1935, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Portrait of a Girl, 1937, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Portrait of Mr. Matsubara, 1937/38-44, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
 
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