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Artist: Sugiura Yasuyoshi, Japanese, born 1949

Sunflower

2005

Glazed stoneware

16 1/8 × 23 5/8 × 25 9/16 in. (41 × 60 × 65 cm)
Flower: 11 1/4 × 24 in. (28.575 × 60.96 cm)
Gift of Joan B. Mirviss
2005.115.1
Geography: 
Japan
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
Heisei era (1989–2019)
Classification: 
Sculpture
Provenance: 

Came directly from the artist Sugiura Yasuyoshi via Joan B Mirviss Ltd. Japanese Fine Art, New York

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 220–21, ill.

Sugiura Yasuyoshi, Sugiura Yasuyoshi to no shokubutsuen: in Musee Tomo, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Kikuchi Foundation, 2006), 32–33.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.