Leaning Nude - Bronze By Issaku Tabata 1915-94

Bronze with dark brown patina - very good condition - signed on the base. circa 1940-50 Born in Kyoto. His father was a painter. Graduated from Kyoto High School in 1930. At that time, he decided to become a sculptor and entered the same year at the Academy of Painting studying avant-garde painting with Jutaro Kuroda (painter trained in France, influenced by Pissaro, the Cubists). The same year, he moved to Tokyo, studied sculpture with Yuzo Fujikawa (student and assistant of Rodin between 1909-1916, and after the latter's death with Kazuo Kikuchi (student of Despiau between 1936-39). Thus his training was very "French" through his teachers. From 1931, he exhibited regularly. In 1937 he went to Ghana to erect a bust of Hideyo Noguchi, tipped for the Nobel Prize for his work on syphilis and yellow fever, who died in Accra. He was impressed by the local population and the local sculptures. He would produce many Africanist sculptures (exhibition in 1948). After the war he devoted himself to landscape sculpture. Wanting the work to be "like a flower when the wind blows". A certificate - an illustrated biography will be given to the purchaser.