Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art is a London based dealer of Modern Asian Art. Specialising in the work of Japanese artists our 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.
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Nakazawa Shin’ichi
Shimmering gold and silver foil in geometric abstracts on an ebony background is how Nakazawa chooses to represent space. At age 19, Nakazawa taught himself copperplate etching, and 10 years on was selected as a “Promising Young Artist” at a so-named exhibition at Tokyo’s Isetan Department store.
Mayumi Oda
Known to many as the ‘Matisse of Japan’, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. Born to a Buddhist family in Japan in 1941, Mayumi studied fine art and traditional Japanese fabric dyeing. In 1966, she graduated from Tokyo University of Fine Arts. Mayumi’s unique apprenticeship dyeing fabric for kimonos influences…
Nagai Kenji
Nagai grew up in Hachioji, a place famous for silks and weaving of brocades for kimonos. His father was a professional weaver, and made dyes from plants from his garden. This profoundly influenced Kenji, and from an early age he began creating his own art work.
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…