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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: 
Not on view
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.

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