Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art is a London based dealer of Modern Asian Art. Specialising in the work of Japanese artists Bakhshi’s catalogue ranges from masterpieces by the likes of Toko Shinoda, Daniel Kelly, and Kazuko Shiihashi, to contemporary print-works by Ray Morimura, Kazutoshi Sugiura and Ryohei Tanaka. Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art also offer a range of museum quality woodblock prints by master printmakers: Yoshitoshi Mori, Sadao Watanabe and Iwami Reika.

ARTISTS

Clifton Karhu

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, the late Clifton Karhu was one of the most acclaimed American woodblock artists to work in Japan. Though the son of two painters and artistically inclined from an early age, Karhu joined the military. Stationed at the American Navy base in Sasebo from 1946 to 1948, he fell in love…

Hamanishi Katsunori

An internationally renowned master of the mezzotint print, Hamanishi uses the very nature of this medium to create velvety black backgrounds and richly detailed images laden with a sense of mystery and intrigue. His works are in the collections of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum and the British Museum.

Tanaka Ryohei

His careful and meticulous copperplate etchings demonstrate his ability to create different textures of thatch, stone, all usually in just black and white, with exquisite detail.

Yoshio Sekine

Sekine Yoshio (関根美夫) was born in Wakayama Prefecture and studied with the painter Yoshihara Jirô (1905-72) who founded the Gutai group of avant-garde artists in 1954. Sekine began painting the abacus in 1963, a single-minded subject that he also explored in many prints. The ancient abacus, an arithmetic calculator, is raised to the level…